Black Canyon City, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,510 ft 1,070 m3,100 ft 945 m2,900 ft 885 m2,490 ft 760 m2,080 ft 635 m1,870 ft 570 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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 CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Black Canyon City sits at about 2,030 ft (620 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,030 ft 620 m
most residents: 1,970–2,330 ft
Lowest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,510 ft 1,070 m
on the east side
Average
2,430 ft 740 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Black Canyon City spans about 1,640 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 | 2,030 ft620 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 3,510 ft1,070 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Black Canyon City | 1,970 ft600 m |
| Average of all land | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Nearest peak Benchmark Mountain, 3.8 mi east of the CDP boundary | 5,920 ft1,805 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 2,677 2020 Census
- Land area
- 24.6 sq mi
- Density
- 109 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.0709° N, 112.1507° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Agua Fria River → Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 85324
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mayer4,430 ft
- Spring Valley3,930 ft
- Cordes Lakes3,670 ft
- Carefree2,410 ft
- Cave Creek2,140 ft
- Black Canyon City2,030 ft
- New River1,900 ft
- Anthem1,870 ft
- Circle City1,860 ft
- Wittmann1,680 ft
- Sun City West1,260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona330th highest of 467
- Towns in Yavapai Countylowest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Towers Mountain7,632 ft
- Pine Mountain6,800 ft
- Benchmark Mountain5,920 ft
- East Cedar Mountain5,431 ft
- Quien Sabe Peak4,870 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).
- 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.
- Black Canyon City 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.