San Carlos, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,970 ft 905 m2,880 ft 875 m2,830 ft 860 m2,730 ft 835 m2,640 ft 805 m2,590 ft 790 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
San Carlos sits at about 2,740 ft (835 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,740 ft 835 m
most residents: 2,630–2,910 ft
Lowest
2,590 ft 790 m
on the south side
Highest
2,970 ft 905 m
on the west side
Average
2,770 ft 845 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
San Carlos spans about 380 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 | 2,740 ft835 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 2,970 ft905 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 2,590 ft790 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Carlos | 2,640 ft805 m |
| Average of all land | 2,770 ft845 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Gila County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 3,987 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.6 sq mi
- Density
- 465 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.3453° N, 110.4532° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 85550
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- El Capitan4,770 ft
- Copper Hill4,130 ft
- Icehouse Canyon3,950 ft
- Six Shooter Canyon3,840 ft
- Pinal3,760 ft
- Globe3,640 ft
- Central Heights-Midland City3,490 ft
- East Globe3,420 ft
- Cutter3,210 ft
- San Carlos2,740 ft
- Peridot2,610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona282nd highest of 467
- Towns in Gila County42nd highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Turnbull8,230 ft
- Pinal Peak7,840 ft
- Apache Peaks6,943 ft
- El Capitan Mountain6,610 ft
- Hog Mountain5,760 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.
- San Carlos 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.