Graham County, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,700 ft 3,260 m8,640 ft 2,635 m7,610 ft 2,320 m5,550 ft 1,690 m3,490 ft 1,065 m2,460 ft 750 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Graham County averages about 4,540 ft (1,385 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,460 ft on the west side to 10,700 ft on Mount Graham.
Average elevation
4,540 ft 1,385 m
all land inside the county
Highest
10,700 ft 3,260 m
on Mount Graham
Lowest
2,460 ft 750 m
on the west side
Graham County spans about 8,240 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 4,540 ft1,385 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Graham (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 10,700 ft3,260 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,460 ft750 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
77 mi south to north through Safford.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Arizona, United States
- Population
- 40,242 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,621.9 sq mi + 18.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 8.7 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Gulf of California 88%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Apache County6,550 ft
- Navajo County6,000 ft
- Greenlee County5,670 ft
- Gila County4,640 ft
- Cochise County4,630 ft
- Graham County4,540 ft
- Pima County2,650 ft
- Pinal County2,330 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Arizona8th highest of 15
- Counties in the United States207th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Graham10,700 ft
- Blue Jay Peak8,850 ft
- Mount Turnbull8,230 ft
- Willow Mountain7,821 ft
- Bassett Peak7,650 ft
All 12 towns in Graham County 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
- Peridot2,610 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.