Mescalero Reservation, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,980 ft 3,650 m10,360 ft 3,160 m9,560 ft 2,915 m7,940 ft 2,420 m6,320 ft 1,925 m5,510 ft 1,680 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
Mescalero Reservation averages about 7,400 ft (2,255 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,510 ft on the northwest side to 11,981 ft on Sierra Blanca Peak.
Average elevation
7,400 ft 2,255 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
11,981 ft 3,652 m
on Sierra Blanca Peak
Lowest
5,510 ft 1,680 m
on the northwest side
Mescalero Reservation spans about 6,470 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 | 7,400 ft2,255 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on Sierra Blanca Peak (NGS survey height) | 11,981 ft3,652 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the northwest side | 5,510 ft1,680 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
27 mi south to north through Mescalero.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in New Mexico, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 4,022 2020 Census
- Land area
- 719.2 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 67%, Big Salt Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 29%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Mescalero Reservation7,400 ft
- Laguna Pueblo6,010 ft
- Isleta Pueblo5,520 ft
- Sandia Pueblo5,440 ft
- Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, TX4,630 ft
- Fort Sill Apache Indian Reservation4,140 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in New Mexico3rd highest of 24
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Sierra Blanca Peak11,981 ft
- Cow Mountain, Otero County9,390 ft
- Harley Mountain8,671 ft
- Black Mountain, Otero County8,620 ft
- Pajarita Mountain7,991 ft
The one town in the reservation
- Mescalero7,130 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.