Elevation of San Marcos, Texas, United States of America
San Marcos, Texas, United States of America is 187 m (614 ft) above sea level.
San Marcos's height from sea level is 187 metres, or 614 feet. GeoNames reads 194 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 188 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 201 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 79 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Texas, and 407th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through San Marcos
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Marcos; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 San Marcos
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Braunfels | 26.7 km | SW | 192 m (630 ft) | +5 m |
Peaks and passes near San Marcos
- Tower Hill, peak at 402 m (1,319 ft), 20.5 km to the W — 215 m above the town.
- Moon Mountain, peak at 372 m (1,220 ft), 21.7 km to the W — 185 m above the town.
- Old Baldy, peak at 357 m (1,171 ft), 21.9 km to the NW — 170 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where San Marcos is
Latitude 29.8832749, longitude -97.9413941. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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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 San Marcos'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 194 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.