Central, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,920 ft 890 m2,900 ft 885 m2,890 ft 880 m2,870 ft 875 m2,850 ft 870 m2,840 ft 865 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
Central sits at about 2,870 ft (875 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,870 ft 875 m
most residents: 2,860–2,880 ft
Lowest
2,840 ft 865 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,920 ft 890 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,870 ft 875 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Central spans about 80 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 | 2,870 ft875 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,920 ft890 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Central | 2,890 ft880 m |
| Airport (SAD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi east of the CDP boundary | 3,178 ft969 m |
| Average of all land | 2,870 ft875 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Graham County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 758 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 452 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.8676° N, 109.7929° 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
- 85531
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- 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
- Bylas2,640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona272nd highest of 467
- Towns in Graham County7th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Graham10,700 ft
- Blue Jay Peak8,850 ft
- Cottonwood Mountain7,460 ft
- Bryce Mountain7,302 ft
- Turtle Mountain7,000 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.
- Central 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.