Elevation of Takum, Taraba, Nigeria

Takum, Taraba, Nigeria is 259 m (850 ft) above sea level.

Takum's height from sea level is 259 metres, or 850 feet. GeoNames reads 256 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

230 m – 569 m

Mean 278 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 339 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 21

among the towns of Taraba, and 584th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

29.5 km to the E, at 167 m, 92 m lower.

Cross-section through Takum

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Takum; the vertical scale is the same on both.

534176WE28.6 km
West to east: from 211 m at 14 km west to 201 m at 14 km east.
534176NS28.6 km
North to south: from 239 m at 14 km north to 283 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Takum, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Takum

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Manya 29.5 kmE 167 m (548 ft) −92 m
Tor Donga (Benue) 31.9 kmW 203 m (666 ft) −56 m

Where Takum is

Latitude 7.258216, longitude 9.9891919. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Takum elevation: 259 m (850 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Takum's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 256 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.