Huachuca City, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,480 ft 1,365 m4,420 ft 1,345 m4,390 ft 1,340 m4,330 ft 1,320 m4,270 ft 1,305 m4,250 ft 1,295 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Huachuca City sits at about 4,350 ft (1,325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,350 ft 1,325 m
most residents: 4,260–4,420 ft
Lowest
4,250 ft 1,295 m
on the north side
Highest
4,480 ft 1,365 m
on the southwest side
Average
4,360 ft 1,330 m
all land inside town limits
Huachuca City spans about 230 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 | 4,350 ft1,325 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 4,480 ft1,365 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 4,250 ft1,295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Huachuca City | 4,410 ft1,345 m |
| Airport (FHU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi south of the town limits | 4,719 ft1,438 m |
| Average of all land | 4,360 ft1,330 m |
| Nearest peak Huachuca Peak, 8.8 mi south of the town limits (NGS survey) | 8,414 ft2,565 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,350 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.9 °F95.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
85% of sea level
25.5 inHg (86.4 kPa): each breath holds 15% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Cochise County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 1,604 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Density
- 568 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.6279° N, 110.3340° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- San Pedro River → Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Sierra Vista Municipal-Libby Aaf (FHU) 4,719 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 85616
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sonoita4,900 ft
- Elgin4,810 ft
- Sierra Vista Southeast4,640 ft
- Sierra Vista4,590 ft
- Tombstone4,490 ft
- Whetstone4,360 ft
- Huachuca City4,350 ft
- Miracle Valley4,340 ft
- Palominas4,240 ft
- Benson3,670 ft
- St. David3,660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona183rd highest of 467
- Towns in Cochise County9th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Miller Peak9,450 ft
- Huachuca Peak8,414 ft
- French Joe Peak7,650 ft
- Mount Ballard7,373 ft
- Red Mountain, Santa Cruz County6,350 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,240 ft at 31.6399° N, 110.3265° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.