Colorado River Indian Reservation, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,960 ft 900 m2,280 ft 695 m1,940 ft 590 m1,270 ft 385 m590 ft 180 m260 ft 80 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Colorado River Indian Reservation averages about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 260 ft on the south side to 2,950 ft on Sawtooth Mountain.
Average elevation
490 ft 150 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
2,950 ft 900 m
on Sawtooth Mountain
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the south side
Colorado River Indian Reservation spans about 2,690 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on Sawtooth Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,950 ft900 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the south side | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
33 mi south to north through Big River.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in Arizona and California, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 8,431 2020 Census
- Land area
- 457.5 sq mi + 6.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Time zones
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving, Pacific UTC−8, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Chemehuevi Reservation, CA700 ft
- Fort Mojave Reservation490 ft
- Colorado River Indian Reservation490 ft
- Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, CA270 ft
- Cocopah Reservation120 ft
- Torres-Martinez Reservation, CA−36 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Arizona18th highest of 19
- Tribal lands in the United States381st highest of 704
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mesquite Mountain1,799 ft
- La Paz Mountain1,300 ft
- Moon Mountain950 ft
- Headgate Rock600 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the reservation with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the reservation.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.