Bear Flat, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,350 ft 1,630 m5,240 ft 1,595 m5,190 ft 1,580 m5,080 ft 1,550 m4,980 ft 1,515 m4,930 ft 1,500 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
Bear Flat sits at about 5,000 ft (1,525 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
5,000 ft 1,525 m
few residents
Lowest
4,930 ft 1,500 m
on the south side
Highest
5,350 ft 1,630 m
at the foot of the Green Valley Hills
Average
5,030 ft 1,535 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bear Flat spans about 420 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 5,000 ft1,525 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Green Valley Hills | 5,350 ft1,630 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 4,930 ft1,500 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bear Flat | 4,970 ft1,515 m |
| Average of all land | 5,030 ft1,535 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,000 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.7 °F94.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.9 inHg (84.3 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Gila County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 11 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 69 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.2931° N, 111.0676° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Tonto Creek → Salt River → Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 85541
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mead Ranch6,000 ft
- Hunter Creek5,930 ft
- Christopher Creek5,820 ft
- Tonto Village5,750 ft
- Kohls Ranch5,430 ft
- Haigler Creek5,410 ft
- Mesa del Caballo5,170 ft
- Bear Flat5,000 ft
- Freedom Acres4,870 ft
- Beaver Valley4,860 ft
- Star Valley4,800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona137th highest of 467
- Towns in Gila County16th highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Baker Butte8,080 ft
- Mazatzal Peak7,908 ft
- Baker Mountain7,733 ft
- Armer Mountain7,312 ft
- Mount Ord7,120 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,920 ft at 34.2835° N, 111.0679° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Bear Flat 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.