Elevation of Mission, Texas, United States of America

Mission, Texas, United States of America is 43 m (141 ft) above sea level.

Mission's height from sea level is 43 metres, or 141 feet. GeoNames reads 47 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 43 m.

Ground within 5 km

33 m – 54 m

Mean 41 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 21 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

55th of 75

among the towns of Texas, and 683rd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

9.6 km to the E, at 41 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Mission

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mission; the vertical scale is the same on both.

7515WE27.3 km
West to east: from 37 m at 14 km west to 38 m at 14 km east.
7515NS27.3 km
North to south: from 56 m at 14 km north to 43 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Mission, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Mission

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
MacAllen 9.6 kmE 41 m (135 ft) −2 m
Pharr 14.3 kmE 38 m (125 ft) −5 m
Reynosa (Mexico) 16.3 kmS 50 m (164 ft) +7 m
Edinburg 18.8 kmNE 34 m (112 ft) −9 m
Ciudad Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (Mexico) 26.4 kmW 42 m (138 ft) −1 m

Where Mission is

Latitude 26.2159066, longitude -98.3252932. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mission elevation: 43 m (141 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Mission'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 47 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.