Ute Mountain Reservation, CO Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

9,980 ft 3,045 m8,640 ft 2,635 m7,960 ft 2,425 m6,620 ft 2,015 m5,270 ft 1,605 m4,600 ft 1,400 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Ute Mountain Reservation averages about 6,000 ft (1,830 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,600 ft on the west side to 9,984 ft on Ute Peak.

Average elevation

6,000 ft 1,830 m

all land inside the reservation

Highest

9,984 ft 3,043 m

on Ute Peak

Lowest

4,600 ft 1,400 m

on the west side

Ute Mountain Reservation spans about 5,380 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	6,000 ft1,830 m
Highest point Inside the reservation, on Ute Peak (NGS survey height)	9,984 ft3,043 m
Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the west side	4,600 ft1,400 m

Elevation profile, west to east

41 mi west to east through Towaoc.

Topographic Map

Location: Reservation, with off-reservation trust land in Colorado and Utah, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
Population: 1,656 2020 Census
Land area: 900.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 1.8 per sq mi
Time zone: Mountain UTC−7 / −6
Landform region: Colorado Plateaus
Drains to: Gulf of California

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average

Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation, NM7,360 ft
Southern Ute Reservation6,910 ft
Jemez Pueblo, NM6,680 ft
Ute Mountain Reservation6,000 ft
Navajo Nation Reservation, AZ5,990 ft
Hopi Reservation, AZ5,820 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Tribal lands in Coloradolowest of 2
Tribal lands in the United States22nd highest of 704

Peaks and hills highest inside

Ute Peak9,984 ft
Black Mountain9,400 ft
Horse Mountain, Montezuma County9,070 ft
The Knees8,940 ft
Marble Mountain, Montezuma County8,590 ft

All 2 towns in the reservation by typical elevation

Towaoc5,960 ft
White Mesa5,300 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; 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, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.