Bowie, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,810 ft 1,160 m3,790 ft 1,155 m3,780 ft 1,150 m3,750 ft 1,145 m3,730 ft 1,135 m3,710 ft 1,130 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
Bowie sits at about 3,760 ft (1,145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,760 ft 1,145 m
most residents: 3,750–3,770 ft
Lowest
3,720 ft 1,130 m
on the east side
Highest
3,810 ft 1,160 m
on the west side
Average
3,760 ft 1,145 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bowie spans about 90 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 | 3,760 ft1,145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 3,810 ft1,160 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 3,720 ft1,130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bowie | 3,760 ft1,145 m |
| Average of all land | 3,760 ft1,145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,760 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.0 °F96.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
26.1 inHg (88.3 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cochise County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 406 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 238 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.3265° N, 109.4870° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- San Simon River → Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 85605
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sunizona4,370 ft
- Sunsites4,330 ft
- Willcox4,170 ft
- Bowie3,760 ft
- Duncan3,740 ft
- Franklin3,730 ft
- San Simon3,610 ft
- Swift Trail Junction3,240 ft
- Cactus Flats3,110 ft
- San Jose3,020 ft
- Solomon2,970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona212th highest of 467
- Towns in Cochise County19th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dos Cabezas Peaks8,320 ft
- Timber Mountain7,820 ft
- Rough Mountain7,260 ft
- Greasewood Mountain7,090 ft
- Kane Spring Mountain6,910 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.
- Bowie 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. All public domain.