Zavala County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m690 ft 210 m580 ft 175 m530 ft 160 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Zavala County averages about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 530 ft on the south side to 950 ft on Batesville Hill.
Average elevation
690 ft 210 m
all land inside the county
Highest
950 ft 290 m
on Batesville Hill
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the south side
Zavala County spans about 420 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Batesville Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
31 mi south to north through Crystal City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 9,209 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,297.4 sq mi + 4.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.1 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
- Uvalde County1,180 ft
- Maverick County790 ft
- Zavala County690 ft
- Dimmit County610 ft
- Frio County580 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas142nd highest of 254
- Counties in the United States2,045th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Batesville Hill950 ft
- Lone Tree Hill, Zavala County870 ft
- Sand Mountain, Zavala County860 ft
- Buck Hill, Zavala County820 ft
- Loma Vista Hill740 ft
All 6 towns in Zavala County by typical elevation
- La Pryor750 ft
- Batesville710 ft
- Loma Grande590 ft
- Amaya580 ft
- Crystal City570 ft
- Chula Vista, Zavala County560 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.