Upshur County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 205 m570 ft 175 m510 ft 155 m400 ft 120 m280 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Upshur County averages about 370 ft (115 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 230 ft on the northeast side to 680 ft on Underwood Mountain.
Average elevation
370 ft 115 m
all land inside the county
Highest
680 ft 205 m
on Underwood Mountain
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the northeast side
Upshur County spans about 450 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 370 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Underwood Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 680 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 230 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Gilmer.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 44,050 2024 est.
- Land area
- 583.0 sq mi + 9.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 76 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Smith County450 ft
- Wood County430 ft
- Upshur County370 ft
- Camp County360 ft
- Morris County340 ft
- Gregg County340 ft
- Harrison County300 ft
- Marion County260 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas187th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States2,518th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Underwood Mountain680 ft
- East Mountain, Upshur County660 ft
- Tidwell Mountain640 ft
- West Mountain, Upshur County630 ft
- Barnwell Mountains620 ft
All 7 towns in Upshur County by typical elevation
- East Mountain430 ft
- Union Grove400 ft
- Big Sandy370 ft
- Warren City partly370 ft
- Gilmer360 ft
- Gladewater partly340 ft
- Ore City320 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.