Elevation of Rockwall, Texas, United States of America

Rockwall, Texas, United States of America is 172 m (564 ft) above sea level.

Rockwall's height from sea level is 172 metres, or 564 feet. GeoNames reads 184 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 180 m.

Ground within 5 km

135 m – 184 m

Mean 156 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 75

among the towns of Texas, and 440th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

10.2 km to the W, at 156 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Rockwall

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 Rockwall; the vertical scale is the same on both.

192131WE26.4 km
West to east: from 146 m at 13 km west to 161 m at 13 km east.
192131NS26.4 km
North to south: from 151 m at 13 km north to 139 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Rockwall, 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 Rockwall

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rowlett 10.2 kmW 156 m (512 ft) −16 m
Wylie 11.9 kmNW 172 m (564 ft) same
Garland 16.9 kmW 172 m (564 ft) same
Mesquite 22.5 kmSW 159 m (522 ft) −13 m
Plano 24.4 kmNW 204 m (669 ft) +32 m

Where Rockwall is

Latitude 32.9312336, longitude -96.4597089. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rockwall elevation: 172 m (564 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 Rockwall'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 184 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.