Sanders, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,030 ft 1,840 m5,980 ft 1,820 m5,950 ft 1,815 m5,890 ft 1,795 m5,840 ft 1,780 m5,810 ft 1,770 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
Sanders sits at about 5,870 ft (1,790 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,870 ft 1,790 m
most residents: 5,840–6,000 ft
Lowest
5,810 ft 1,770 m
on the southwest side
Highest
6,030 ft 1,840 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,860 ft 1,785 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sanders spans about 220 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 | 5,870 ft1,790 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 6,030 ft1,840 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 5,810 ft1,770 m |
| Average of all land | 5,860 ft1,785 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the middle of Sanders.
Altitude Effects
What 5,870 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.1 °F93.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.1 inHg (81.6 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+12% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Apache County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 575 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 222 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2076° N, 109.3209° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Puerco River → Little Colorado River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 86512
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sagar, NM7,240 ft
- Oak Springs6,570 ft
- Klagetoh6,440 ft
- Black Rock, NM6,440 ft
- Purty Rock, NM6,420 ft
- Manuelito, NM6,400 ft
- Zuni Pueblo, NM6,290 ft
- Wide Ruins6,240 ft
- Lupton6,180 ft
- Houck6,130 ft
- Sanders5,870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona79th highest of 467
- Towns in Apache County30th highest of 39
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Balakai Point7,450 ft
- Padres Mesa6,713 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill, Apache County6,680 ft
- White Top (historical)6,340 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).
- 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, 5,810 ft at 35.2018° N, 109.3276° 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.
- Sanders 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.