Cactus Flats, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,260 ft 995 m3,200 ft 975 m3,180 ft 970 m3,120 ft 950 m3,070 ft 935 m3,040 ft 925 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
Cactus Flats sits at about 3,110 ft (950 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,110 ft 950 m
most residents: 3,060–3,170 ft
Lowest
3,040 ft 925 m
on the north side
Highest
3,260 ft 995 m
at the foot of the Pinaleno Mountains
Average
3,130 ft 955 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cactus Flats spans about 220 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 | 3,110 ft950 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Pinaleno Mountains | 3,260 ft995 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 3,040 ft925 m |
| Airport (SAD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 3,178 ft969 m |
| Average of all land | 3,130 ft955 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Graham, 8.3 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 10,700 ft3,260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.6 mi west to east through the middle of Cactus Flats.
Altitude Effects
What 3,110 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.2 °F96.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.7 inHg (90.4 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Graham County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 1,524 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.2 sq mi
- Density
- 245 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.7670° N, 109.7184° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Safford Rgnl/1lt Duane Spalsbury Field (SAD) 3,178 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 85546
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morenci4,050 ft
- Swift Trail Junction3,240 ft
- Cactus Flats3,110 ft
- San Jose3,020 ft
- Solomon2,970 ft
- Safford2,950 ft
- Thatcher2,930 ft
- Central2,870 ft
- Pima2,860 ft
- Bryce2,840 ft
- Fort Thomas2,790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona257th highest of 467
- Towns in Graham County2nd highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Graham10,700 ft
- Blue Jay Peak8,850 ft
- Bryce Mountain7,302 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.
- Cactus Flats 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.