San Tan Valley, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,720 ft 525 m1,670 ft 510 m1,580 ft 485 m1,500 ft 455 m1,450 ft 445 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
San Tan Valley sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,510 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,470–1,550 ft
Lowest
1,450 ft 445 m
on the west side
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,520 ft 460 m
all land inside town limits
San Tan Valley spans about 350 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 | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 1,450 ft445 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Tan Valley | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Airport (IWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi northwest of the town limits | 1,384 ft422 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft460 m |
| Nearest peak Santan Mountain, 5.1 mi west of the town limits | 2,980 ft910 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 89,015 2020 Census
- Land area
- 34.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,571 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.1911° N, 111.5280° 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 3
- 85140 85142 85143
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gold Canyon1,840 ft
- Apache Junction1,680 ft
- San Tan Valley1,510 ft
- Florence1,500 ft
- Coolidge1,420 ft
- Queen Creek1,410 ft
- Blackwater1,370 ft
- Sacaton Flats Village1,310 ft
- Sacaton1,300 ft
- Upper Santan Village1,260 ft
- Lower Santan Village1,240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona366th highest of 467
- Towns in Pinal County19th 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 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, 1,350 ft at 33.2357° N, 111.5440° 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).
- 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, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.