Wharton County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

170 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m77 ft 24 m42 ft 13 m24 ft 7 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Wharton County averages about 100 ft (30 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 24 ft on the east side to 170 ft on the north side.

Average elevation

100 ft 30 m

all land inside the county

Highest

170 ft 50 m

on the north side

Lowest

24 ft 7 m

on the east side

Wharton County spans about 146 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	100 ft30 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the north side	170 ft50 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side	24 ft7 m

Elevation profile, south to north

39 mi south to north through El Campo.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Texas, United States
Population: 42,035 2024 est.
Land area: 1,086.1 sq mi + 8.2 sq mi water
Density: 39 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

Colorado County240 ft
Austin County230 ft
Wharton County100 ft
Fort Bend County86 ft
Jackson County60 ft
Matagorda County28 ft
Brazoria County28 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Texas233rd highest of 254
Counties in the United States2,917th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Peach Break88 ft

All 7 towns in Wharton County by typical elevation

East Bernard120 ft
El Campo110 ft
Hungerford100 ft
Wharton100 ft
Louise82 ft
Iago79 ft
Boling78 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.