Alpine, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,120 ft 2,475 m8,080 ft 2,460 m8,050 ft 2,455 m8,010 ft 2,440 m7,960 ft 2,425 m7,940 ft 2,420 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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 CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Alpine sits at about 8,010 ft (2,440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
8,010 ft 2,440 m
most residents: 7,950–8,050 ft
Lowest
7,940 ft 2,420 m
on the southeast side
Highest
8,120 ft 2,475 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
8,000 ft 2,440 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Alpine spans about 180 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 8,010 ft2,440 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 8,120 ft2,475 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 7,940 ft2,420 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alpine | 8,020 ft2,445 m |
| Average of all land | 8,000 ft2,440 m |
| Nearest peak Escudilla Mountain, 7.1 mi north of the CDP boundary | 10,920 ft3,330 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 8,010 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
197.1 °F91.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
74% of sea level
22.2 inHg (75.2 kPa): each breath holds 26% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+16% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
CDC: about 1 in 4 visitors who sleep above 8,000 ft get altitude sickness. CDC Yellow Book
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Apache County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 146 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 258 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8481° N, 109.1431° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- San Francisco River → Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 85920
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greer8,410 ft
- Alpine8,010 ft
- Nutrioso7,700 ft
- Escudilla Bonita, NM7,680 ft
- Eagar7,140 ft
- Luna, NM7,060 ft
- Springerville7,000 ft
- Rancho Grande, NM6,360 ft
- Reserve, NM5,850 ft
- Rivers, NM5,770 ft
- Middle Frisco, NM5,720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona3rd highest of 467
- Towns in Apache County2nd highest of 39
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Baldy11,420 ft
- Escudilla Mountain10,920 ft
- Whiterocks Mountain8,832 ft
- Freeman Mountain8,780 ft
- Red Mountain, Greenlee County8,150 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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.
- Alpine is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.