Van Alstyne, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m780 ft 235 m760 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m660 ft 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Van Alstyne sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 750–790 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the east side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the northwest side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside city limits
Van Alstyne spans about 160 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 660 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Van Alstyne | 780 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grayson County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 7,220 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,300 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.4215° N, 96.5772° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- East Fork Trinity River → Trinity River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 75495
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dorchester860 ft
- Howe840 ft
- Tom Bean800 ft
- Van Alstyne780 ft
- Whitewright760 ft
- Gunter760 ft
- Anna720 ft
- Weston710 ft
- Westminster680 ft
- Melissa670 ft
- Blue Ridge590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas539th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Grayson County7th highest of 18
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.