Shonto, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,590 ft 2,005 m6,490 ft 1,975 m6,440 ft 1,960 m6,340 ft 1,935 m6,240 ft 1,905 m6,190 ft 1,890 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
Shonto sits at about 6,460 ft (1,970 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,460 ft 1,970 m
most residents: 6,430–6,520 ft
Lowest
6,190 ft 1,890 m
on the southeast side
Highest
6,590 ft 2,005 m
on the north side
Average
6,440 ft 1,965 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shonto spans about 400 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 | 6,460 ft1,970 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 6,590 ft2,005 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 6,190 ft1,890 m |
| Average of all land | 6,440 ft1,965 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the middle of Shonto.
Altitude Effects
What 6,460 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.0 °F93.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.6 inHg (79.8 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Navajo County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 494 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Density
- 108 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.5946° N, 110.6629° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Moenkopi Wash → Little Colorado River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 86054
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shonto6,460 ft
- Navajo Mountain, UT6,440 ft
- Pinon6,390 ft
- Chilchinbito6,220 ft
- Kaibito6,030 ft
- Hard Rock5,950 ft
- Oljato-Monument Valley, UT5,700 ft
- Kayenta5,690 ft
- Tonalea5,650 ft
- Oljato-Monument Valley5,310 ft
- Tuba City4,930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona42nd highest of 467
- Towns in Navajo County8th highest of 48
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Point7,990 ft
- Octagon Butte6,704 ft
- Saneneheck Rock6,650 ft
- Boot Mesa6,640 ft
- Adah Hillini5,780 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).
- 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.
- Shonto 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.