Van, TX Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

530 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m500 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m460 ft 140 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Van sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

500 ft 155 m

most residents: 490–510 ft

Lowest

460 ft 140 m

on the south side

Highest

530 ft 160 m

on the southwest side

Average

500 ft 150 m

all land inside city limits

Van spans about 70 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	500 ft155 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side	530 ft160 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side	460 ft140 m
Town center USGS map point for Van	490 ft150 m
Average of all land	500 ft150 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.3 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States
Population: 2,944 2024 est.
Land area: 3.0 sq mi
Density: 968 per sq mi
Coordinates: 32.5249° N, 95.6372° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Neches River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 75790

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Lindale550 ft
Ben Wheeler550 ft
Canton510 ft
Van500 ft
Edom500 ft
Hideaway490 ft
Callender Lake470 ft
Fruitvale460 ft
Grand Saline440 ft
Mineola420 ft
Brownsboro410 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Texas944th highest of 1,861
Towns in Van Zandt County5th highest of 10

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Red Hill, Van Zandt County580 ft
Mount Sinai580 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
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.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.