Superior, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,730 ft 1,135 m3,380 ft 1,030 m3,210 ft 980 m2,870 ft 875 m2,520 ft 770 m2,350 ft 715 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Superior sits at about 2,790 ft (850 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,790 ft 850 m
most residents: 2,690–2,870 ft
Lowest
2,350 ft 715 m
on the west side
Highest
3,730 ft 1,135 m
at the foot of the Dripping Spring Mountains
Average
2,760 ft 840 m
all land inside town limits
Superior spans about 1,380 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 | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, at the foot of the Dripping Spring Mountains | 3,730 ft1,135 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 2,350 ft715 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Superior | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Average of all land | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Nearest peak Scott Mountain, 8.9 mi southeast of the town limits | 5,100 ft1,555 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 2,682 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.4 sq mi
- Density
- 236 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.2939° N, 111.0962° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Queen Creek → Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 85173
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- El Capitan4,770 ft
- Top-of-the-World4,530 ft
- Icehouse Canyon3,950 ft
- Globe3,640 ft
- Miami3,500 ft
- Central Heights-Midland City3,490 ft
- Claypool3,430 ft
- Wheatfields3,080 ft
- Superior2,790 ft
- Queen Valley2,050 ft
- Kearny1,860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona278th highest of 467
- Towns in Pinal County6th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pinal Peak7,840 ft
- Mound Mountain6,268 ft
- Webster Mountain5,730 ft
- Scott Mountain5,100 ft
- Picketpost Mountain4,378 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).
- 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, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.