Tonto Basin, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,770 ft 1,760 m4,860 ft 1,480 m4,410 ft 1,345 m3,510 ft 1,070 m2,600 ft 790 m2,150 ft 655 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Tonto Basin sits at about 2,370 ft (720 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,370 ft 720 m
most residents: 2,190–3,030 ft
Lowest
2,150 ft 655 m
on the southeast side
Highest
5,770 ft 1,760 m
on Edwards Peak
Average
2,730 ft 835 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tonto Basin spans about 3,620 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 | 2,370 ft720 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Edwards Peak | 5,770 ft1,760 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 2,150 ft655 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tonto Basin | 2,240 ft685 m |
| Average of all land | 2,730 ft835 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Ord, 4.5 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 7,120 ft2,170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Gila County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 1,444 2020 Census
- Land area
- 32.1 sq mi
- Density
- 45 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8317° N, 111.2946° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Tonto Creek → Salt River → Gila River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 85553
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Round Valley4,840 ft
- Oxbow Estates4,650 ft
- Rye3,080 ft
- Deer Creek3,080 ft
- Jakes Corner2,890 ft
- Gisela2,880 ft
- Tonto Basin2,370 ft
- Roosevelt2,340 ft
- Roosevelt Estates2,250 ft
- Rock House2,190 ft
- Rio Verde1,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona309th highest of 467
- Towns in Gila County43rd highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mazatzal Peak7,908 ft
- Four Peaks7,659 ft
- Armer Mountain7,312 ft
- Mount Ord7,120 ft
- Diamond Mountain5,110 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).
- 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.
- Tonto Basin 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.