Tierra Grande, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
69 ft 21 m60 ft 18 m56 ft 17 m48 ft 15 m40 ft 12 m36 ft 11 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tierra Grande sits at about 54 ft (16 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
54 ft 16 m
most residents: 53–55 ft
Lowest
36 ft 11 m
on the northeast side
Highest
62 ft 19 m
on the north side
Average
53 ft 16 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tierra Grande is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 26 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 54 ft16 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 62 ft19 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 36 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tierra Grande | 55 ft17 m |
| Airport (CRP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 46 ft14 m |
| Average of all land | 53 ft16 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nueces County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 303 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi
- Density
- 64 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 27.6925° N, 97.5817° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Airport
- Corpus Christi International (CRP) 46 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 78380 78415
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Banquete80 ft
- North San Pedro77 ft
- Robstown75 ft
- Spring Gardens74 ft
- Tierra Verde74 ft
- La Paloma-Lost Creek65 ft
- Driscoll61 ft
- Bishop58 ft
- Tierra Grande54 ft
- Petronila51 ft
- Corpus Christi26 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,655th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Nueces County11th highest of 15
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 18 ft at 27.7121° N, 97.5585° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Tierra Grande is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.