Elevation of Fourmies, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Fourmies, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France is 203 m (666 ft) above sea level.

Fourmies's height from sea level is 203 metres, or 666 feet. GeoNames reads 190 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 174 m to 247 m.

Ground within 4 km

174 m – 252 m

Mean 210 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 78 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 90

among the towns of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, and 188th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

8.6 km to the E, at 255 m, 52 m higher.

Cross-section through Fourmies

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Fourmies; the vertical scale is the same on both.

268159WE23.6 km
West to east: from 225 m at 12 km west to 254 m at 12 km east.
268159NS23.6 km
North to south: from 200 m at 12 km north to 179 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Fourmies, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 50 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 Fourmies

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Momignies (Belgium) 8.6 kmE 255 m (837 ft) +52 m
Hirson (Picardie) 11.2 kmS 181 m (594 ft) −22 m
Sivry-Rance (Belgium) 18.6 kmNE 210 m (689 ft) +7 m
Chimay (Belgium) 19.8 kmE 250 m (820 ft) +47 m
Froidchapelle (Belgium) 24.8 kmNE 252 m (827 ft) +49 m

Where Fourmies is

Latitude 50.018301, longitude 4.046972. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Fourmies elevation: 203 m (666 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 Fourmies'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 190 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.