Thatcher, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,310 ft 1,010 m3,190 ft 975 m3,140 ft 955 m3,020 ft 920 m2,910 ft 885 m2,850 ft 870 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
Thatcher sits at about 2,930 ft (890 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,930 ft 890 m
most residents: 2,900–3,080 ft
Lowest
2,850 ft 870 m
on the north side
Highest
3,310 ft 1,010 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,960 ft 905 m
all land inside town limits
Thatcher spans about 460 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 | 2,930 ft890 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,310 ft1,010 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 2,850 ft870 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thatcher | 2,910 ft885 m |
| Airport (SAD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi east of the town limits | 3,178 ft969 m |
| Average of all land | 2,960 ft905 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Graham, 8.3 mi southwest of the town limits | 10,700 ft3,260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Graham County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 5,627 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 845 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.8492° N, 109.7592° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Safford Rgnl/1lt Duane Spalsbury Field (SAD) 3,178 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 85552
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morenci4,050 ft
- Swift Trail Junction3,240 ft
- Cactus Flats3,110 ft
- San Jose3,020 ft
- Solomon2,970 ft
- Safford2,950 ft
- Thatcher2,930 ft
- Central2,870 ft
- Pima2,860 ft
- Bryce2,840 ft
- Fort Thomas2,790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona269th highest of 467
- Towns in Graham County6th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Graham10,700 ft
- Blue Jay Peak8,850 ft
- Bryce Mountain7,302 ft
- Turtle Mountain7,000 ft
- Kane Spring Mountain6,910 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.