Taos Pueblo, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,090 ft 3,990 m11,340 ft 3,455 m10,460 ft 3,190 m8,710 ft 2,655 m6,960 ft 2,120 m6,090 ft 1,855 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
Taos Pueblo averages about 8,640 ft (2,630 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 6,090 ft on the southwest side to 13,090 ft on Old Mike Peak.
Average elevation
8,640 ft 2,630 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
13,090 ft 3,990 m
on Old Mike Peak
Lowest
6,090 ft 1,855 m
on the southwest side
Taos Pueblo spans about 7,000 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 | 8,640 ft2,630 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on Old Mike Peak | 13,090 ft3,990 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the southwest side | 6,090 ft1,855 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Taos Pueblo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation, with off-reservation trust land in New Mexico, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 4,704 2020 Census
- Land area
- 156.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Taos Pueblo8,640 ft
- Picuris Pueblo7,840 ft
- Santa Clara Pueblo7,230 ft
- Nambe Pueblo6,650 ft
- Pueblo of Pojoaque5,960 ft
- Ohkay Owingeh5,750 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in New Mexicohighest of 24
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Red Dome12,670 ft
- Lew Wallace Peak12,430 ft
- Pueblo Peak12,150 ft
- Larkspur Peak11,998 ft
- Palo Encebado Peak10,100 ft
All 2 towns in the reservation by typical elevation
- Taos Pueblo7,110 ft
- Taos partly6,950 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. 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.