Wichita Falls, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,090 ft 330 m1,040 ft 320 m1,020 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Wichita Falls sits at about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 300 m
most residents: 950–1,030 ft
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the east side
Highest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the northwest side
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Wichita Falls spans about 170 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 920 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wichita Falls | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (SPS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi north of the city limits | 1,019 ft311 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Wichita and Clay counties, Texas, United States
- Population
- 102,372 2024 est.
- Land area
- 72.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,417 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9137° N, 98.4934° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wichita River → Red River → Atchafalaya River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sheppard Afb/wichita Falls Municipal (SPS) 1,019 ft
- ZIP codes 9
- 76301 76302 76305 76306 76308 76309 76310 76311 76367
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Holliday1,050 ft
- Burkburnett1,040 ft
- Iowa Park1,040 ft
- Cashion Community1,020 ft
- Lakeside City1,000 ft
- Petrolia990 ft
- Jolly990 ft
- Wichita Falls990 ft
- Pleasant Valley970 ft
- Dean970 ft
- Scotland970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas423rd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Wichita County5th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sunshine Hill1,208 ft
- Floral Mound1,200 ft
- Temple Hill1,100 ft
- Twin Mountain, Wichita County1,060 ft
- Bare Butte1,060 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.