Salt River Reservation, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,800 ft 855 m2,390 ft 725 m2,180 ft 665 m1,770 ft 540 m1,360 ft 415 m1,150 ft 350 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Salt River Reservation averages about 1,370 ft (420 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,150 ft on the southwest side to 2,800 ft on Mount McDowell.
Average elevation
1,370 ft 420 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
2,800 ft 855 m
on Mount McDowell
Lowest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the southwest side
Salt River Reservation spans about 1,650 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 | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on Mount McDowell (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the southwest side | 1,150 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.5 mi south to north through the middle of Salt River Reservation.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in Arizona, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 6,321 2020 Census
- Land area
- 82.5 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 77 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, 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
- Tonto Apache Reservation5,040 ft
- Yavapai-Apache Nation Reservation3,220 ft
- Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Reservation1,510 ft
- Salt River Reservation1,370 ft
- Gila River Indian Reservation1,300 ft
- Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation1,210 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Arizona14th highest of 19
- Tribal lands in the United States213th highest of 704
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount McDowell2,800 ft
- Arizona Dam Butte2,450 ft
- Sawik Mountain2,110 ft
- Apache Peak, Maricopa County1,640 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).
- 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.