Elevation of DeSoto, Texas, United States of America

DeSoto, Texas, United States of America is 202 m (663 ft) above sea level.

DeSoto's height from sea level is 202 metres, or 663 feet. GeoNames reads 205 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 203 m.

Ground within 5 km

164 m – 226 m

Mean 200 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 62 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 75

among the towns of Texas, and 354th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

9.3 km to the W, at 255 m, 53 m higher.

Cross-section through DeSoto

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is DeSoto; the vertical scale is the same on both.

263148WE26.5 km
West to east: from 251 m at 13 km west to 157 m at 13 km east.
263148NS26.5 km
North to south: from 188 m at 13 km north to 199 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around DeSoto, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 56 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 DeSoto

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cedar Hill 9.3 kmW 255 m (837 ft) +53 m
Grand Prairie 21.8 kmNW 162 m (531 ft) −40 m
Dallas 25.1 kmN 160 m (525 ft) −42 m
Irving 26.4 kmN 152 m (499 ft) −50 m
Mansfield 26.8 kmW 193 m (633 ft) −9 m

Where DeSoto is

Latitude 32.5898577, longitude -96.8569451. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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DeSoto elevation: 202 m (663 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 DeSoto'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 205 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.