Gold Canyon, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,800 ft 855 m2,530 ft 770 m2,390 ft 730 m2,120 ft 645 m1,840 ft 560 m1,700 ft 520 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
Gold Canyon sits at about 1,840 ft (560 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,840 ft 560 m
most residents: 1,770–2,010 ft
Lowest
1,700 ft 520 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,800 ft 855 m
at the foot of the Superstition Mountains
Average
1,950 ft 595 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Gold Canyon spans about 1,100 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 | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Superstition Mountains | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gold Canyon | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Airport (IWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi west of the CDP boundary | 1,384 ft422 m |
| Average of all land | 1,950 ft595 m |
| Nearest peak The Flatiron, 2.2 mi north of the CDP boundary | 4,960 ft1,510 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pinal County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 11,404 2020 Census
- Land area
- 28.7 sq mi
- Density
- 398 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.3646° N, 111.4616° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Mesa Gateway (IWA) 1,384 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 85118 85119
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Superior2,790 ft
- Queen Valley2,050 ft
- Gold Canyon1,840 ft
- Fountain Hills1,690 ft
- Apache Junction1,680 ft
- San Tan Valley1,510 ft
- Florence1,500 ft
- Queen Creek1,410 ft
- Gilbert1,280 ft
- Mesa1,280 ft
- Chandler1,210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona349th highest of 467
- Towns in Pinal County12th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mound Mountain6,268 ft
- The Flatiron4,960 ft
- Picketpost Mountain4,378 ft
- Bronco Butte4,300 ft
- Santan Mountain2,980 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.
- Gold Canyon 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.