La Paz County, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,680 ft 1,730 m4,300 ft 1,310 m3,620 ft 1,105 m2,250 ft 685 m870 ft 265 m190 ft 60 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
La Paz County averages about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 190 ft on the southwest side to 5,680 ft on Harquahala Mountain.
Average elevation
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,680 ft 1,730 m
on Harquahala Mountain
Lowest
190 ft 60 m
on the southwest side
La Paz County spans about 5,490 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 | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Harquahala Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 5,680 ft1,730 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 190 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
56 mi west to east through Parker.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Arizona, United States
- Population
- 16,992 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,496.6 sq mi + 14.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Yavapai County4,460 ft
- Mohave County3,750 ft
- San Bernardino County, CA2,660 ft
- Riverside County, CA1,860 ft
- Maricopa County1,640 ft
- La Paz County1,360 ft
- Yuma County860 ft
- Imperial County, CA410 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Arizona14th highest of 15
- Counties in the United States952nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Harquahala Mountain5,680 ft
- Smith Peak5,230 ft
- Harcuvar Peak4,610 ft
- Salome Peak3,970 ft
- Black Mesa3,642 ft
All 17 towns in La Paz County by typical elevation
- Salome1,880 ft
- Wenden1,870 ft
- Sunwest1,510 ft
- Brenda1,360 ft
- Alamo Lake1,350 ft
- Vicksburg1,190 ft
- Utting1,090 ft
- La Paz Valley1,020 ft
- Bouse950 ft
- Quartzsite880 ft
- Parker Strip470 ft
- Cienega Springs440 ft
- Parker420 ft
- Bluewater370 ft
- Poston330 ft
- Ehrenberg270 ft
- Cibola230 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.