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Most of Lead surpasses Custer in elevation [citation needed] 3133 feet (955 m) Trade Tennessee [40] Unincorporated; highest incorporated city is Mountain City, elevation 2,418 feet 4900 feet (1494 m) Fort Davis Texas [41] Unincorporated; highest incorporated city is Marfa, elevation 4,685 feet 9800 feet (2987 m) Brian Head Utah [42] 1555 feet ...
To be included on the list, a place needs to be an incorporated municipality (i.e. a city, town, or village) and it needs to be at an elevation of 3,000 feet (914 m) or higher. In the United States, settlements above 3,000 feet are found primarily on the High Plains , in the Rocky Mountains , and in Western North Carolina .
The following is a list of the world's major cities (either capitals, more than one million inhabitants or an elevation of over 1,000 m [3,300 ft]) by elevation. In addition, the country, continental region, latitude and longitude are shown for all cities listed.
[b] This list uses the "mean of extremes" elevation which is the arithmetic mean of the highest and lowest elevations. Lake County, Colorado has the highest U.S. county mean elevation of 11,702 feet (3,567 m). Lake County is the home of Mount Elbert and Mount Massive, the two highest summits of the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada.
Alpine (/ ˈ æ l p aɪ n / AL-pyne) is a city in and the county seat of Brewster County, Texas, United States. [5] The population was 6,035 at the 2020 census. [6] The town has an elevation of 4,462 feet (1,360 m), and the surrounding mountain peaks are over 1 mile (1.6 km) above sea level.
The geographic center of Texas is about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Brady in northern McCulloch County. Guadalupe Peak, at 8,749 feet (2,666.7 m) above sea level, is the highest point in Texas, the lowest being sea level where Texas meets the Gulf of Mexico. [6]
Elevation is located on Texas State Highway 36, 17 mi (27 km) southeast of Cameron, 12 mi (19 km) southeast of Rockdale, and 4 mi (6.4 km) southeast of Milano in southeastern Milam County. [ 3 ] Education
Houston, the most populous city in the Southern United States, is located along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. The city, which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area , covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km 2 ), of which 579.4 square miles (1,501 km 2 ), or 96.3% ...