Washington County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m450 ft 135 m390 ft 120 m280 ft 85 m170 ft 50 m120 ft 35 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
Washington County averages about 300 ft (95 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 120 ft on the southeast side to 560 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
300 ft 95 m
all land inside the county
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the west side
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the southeast side
Washington County spans about 440 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 | 300 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 120 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
37 mi west to east through Brenham.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 37,810 2024 est.
- Land area
- 604.2 sq mi + 17.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 63 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
- Lee County410 ft
- Fayette County370 ft
- Burleson County320 ft
- Washington County300 ft
- Grimes County300 ft
- Brazos County280 ft
- Austin County230 ft
- Waller County200 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas204th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States2,618th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Homeymeyer Mountain470 ft
- Shepherd Mountain420 ft
- Green Mountain, Washington County290 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. 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.