Elevation of Richardson, Texas, United States of America

Richardson, Texas, United States of America is 196 m (643 ft) above sea level.

Richardson's height from sea level is 196 metres, or 643 feet. GeoNames reads 195 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 192 m.

Ground within 5 km

161 m – 214 m

Mean 193 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 53 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 75

among the towns of Texas, and 370th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Plano

8.5 km to the N, at 204 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Richardson

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Richardson; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 181 m at 13 km west to 159 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 214 m at 13 km north to 144 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Richardson, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Richardson

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Plano	8.5 km	N	204 m (669 ft)	+8 m
Garland	9.4 km	SE	172 m (564 ft)	−24 m
Carrollton	15.3 km	W	163 m (535 ft)	−33 m
Rowlett	16.3 km	E	156 m (512 ft)	−40 m
Dallas	16.6 km	S	160 m (525 ft)	−36 m

Where Richardson is

Latitude 32.9481789, longitude -96.7297205. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/227_742,Richardson,Texas,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_742.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Richardson elevation: 196 m (643 ft) above sea level"></a>

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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 Richardson'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 195 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.