Yancey, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m700 ft 210 m670 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m630 ft 190 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
Yancey sits at about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 210 m
most residents: 650–700 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the southeast side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Yancey spans about 110 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 | 680 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 630 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Yancey | 670 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Medina County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 300 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 60 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.1394° N, 99.1450° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Frio River → Nueces River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 78886
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hondo890 ft
- D'Hanis890 ft
- Castroville770 ft
- Lytle720 ft
- Natalia700 ft
- Yancey680 ft
- Moore670 ft
- Devine660 ft
- North Pearsall630 ft
- Bigfoot630 ft
- Pearsall620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas662nd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Medina County6th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fohn Hill1,020 ft
- Red Hill, Medina County870 ft
- Abbey Hill730 ft
- Ghost Hill730 ft
- Jones Mound730 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 630 ft at 29.1210° N, 99.1226° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Yancey 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.