Santa Cruz County, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,450 ft 2,880 m7,850 ft 2,390 m7,040 ft 2,145 m5,440 ft 1,655 m3,830 ft 1,165 m3,020 ft 920 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Santa Cruz County averages about 4,540 ft (1,385 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,020 ft on the northwest side to 9,450 ft on Mount Wrightson.
Average elevation
4,540 ft 1,385 m
all land inside the county
Highest
9,450 ft 2,880 m
on Mount Wrightson
Lowest
3,020 ft 920 m
on the northwest side
Santa Cruz County spans about 6,430 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 | 4,540 ft1,385 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Wrightson (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 9,450 ft2,880 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,020 ft920 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
53 mi west to east through Rio Rico.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Arizona, United States
- Population
- 50,508 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,236.3 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of California 21%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cochise County4,630 ft
- Santa Cruz County4,540 ft
- Pima County2,650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Arizona7th highest of 15
- Counties in the United States206th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Wrightson9,450 ft
- Mount Hopkins8,550 ft
- Mount Washington7,200 ft
- Mustang Peak6,450 ft
- Atascosa Peak6,420 ft
All 10 towns in Santa Cruz County by typical elevation
- Sonoita4,900 ft
- Elgin4,810 ft
- Patagonia4,060 ft
- Kino Springs3,980 ft
- Nogales3,860 ft
- Beyerville3,650 ft
- Rio Rico3,560 ft
- Tumacacori-Carmen3,260 ft
- Tubac3,210 ft
- Amado3,100 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; 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; 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.