West University Place, TX Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

77 ft 23 m69 ft 21 m64 ft 20 m56 ft 17 m48 ft 15 m44 ft 13 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

West University Place sits at about 51 ft (15 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

51 ft 15 m

most residents: 48–52 ft

Lowest

44 ft 13 m

on the south side

Highest

55 ft 17 m

on the northwest side

Average

50 ft 15 m

all land inside city limits

West University Place is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 11 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	51 ft15 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side	55 ft17 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side	44 ft13 m
Town center USGS map point for West University Place	50 ft15 m
Airport (HOU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.4 mi southeast of the city limits	46 ft14 m
Average of all land	50 ft15 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in Harris County, Texas, United States
Population: 15,149 2024 est.
Land area: 2.0 sq mi
Density: 7,559 per sq mi
Coordinates: 29.7180° N, 95.4338° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Gulf of America
Airport: William P Hobby (HOU) 46 ft
ZIP codes 1: 77005

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Texas1,666th highest of 1,861
Towns in Harris County16th highest of 37

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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.