Wells Branch, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m730 ft 225 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wells Branch sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 750–850 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the south side
Highest
880 ft 265 m
on the northeast side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Wells Branch spans about 150 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 880 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 730 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wells Branch | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (EDC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 620 ft189 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Travis County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 14,000 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 5,761 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.4460° N, 97.6795° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Austin Exec (EDC) 620 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78728
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cedar Park940 ft
- Brushy Creek840 ft
- Wells Branch820 ft
- Georgetown790 ft
- Steiner Ranch770 ft
- Round Rock750 ft
- Pflugerville750 ft
- West Lake Hills730 ft
- Austin670 ft
- Hutto650 ft
- Manor540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas509th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Travis County7th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rabbit Hill960 ft
- Martin Hill930 ft
- Cat Mountain930 ft
- Mount Barker870 ft
- Mount Lucas870 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Wells Branch is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.