Val Verde County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,350 ft 715 m1,970 ft 600 m1,780 ft 545 m1,400 ft 425 m1,020 ft 310 m830 ft 255 m
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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
Val Verde County averages about 1,700 ft (520 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 830 ft on the southeast side to 2,350 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,700 ft 520 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,350 ft 715 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the southeast side
Val Verde County spans about 1,520 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 | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,350 ft715 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
68 mi south to north through Del Rio.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 47,999 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,144.7 sq mi + 87.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Crockett County2,430 ft
- Terrell County2,380 ft
- Sutton County2,240 ft
- Edwards County2,120 ft
- Val Verde County1,700 ft
- Kinney County1,240 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas91st highest of 254
- Counties in the United States737th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Blue Hills, Val Verde County2,155 ft
- Round Mountain, Val Verde County1,000 ft
All 7 towns in Val Verde County by typical elevation
- Box Canyon1,190 ft
- Amistad1,170 ft
- Lake View1,160 ft
- Laughlin AFB1,100 ft
- Val Verde Park1,070 ft
- Del Rio1,000 ft
- Cienegas Terrace970 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.