Willcox, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,200 ft 1,280 m4,190 ft 1,275 m4,180 ft 1,275 m4,170 ft 1,270 m4,160 ft 1,265 m4,150 ft 1,265 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Willcox sits at about 4,170 ft (1,270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,170 ft 1,270 m
most residents: 4,170–4,180 ft
Lowest
4,150 ft 1,265 m
on the southeast side
Highest
4,200 ft 1,280 m
on the northwest side
Average
4,170 ft 1,270 m
all land inside city limits
Willcox spans about 50 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 | 4,170 ft1,270 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 4,200 ft1,280 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 4,150 ft1,265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Willcox | 4,170 ft1,270 m |
| Airport (P33) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi west of the city limits | 4,187 ft1,276 m |
| Average of all land | 4,170 ft1,270 m |
Altitude Effects
What 4,170 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.3 °F95.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
86% of sea level
25.7 inHg (87.0 kPa): each breath holds 14% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.0% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cochise County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 3,217 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 486 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.2529° N, 109.8320° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Cochise County (P33) 4,187 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 85643
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dragoon4,630 ft
- Sunizona4,370 ft
- Sunsites4,330 ft
- Willcox4,170 ft
- Mescal4,150 ft
- Bowie3,760 ft
- Benson3,670 ft
- St. David3,660 ft
- San Simon3,610 ft
- Swift Trail Junction3,240 ft
- Cactus Flats3,110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona189th highest of 467
- Towns in Cochise County13th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dos Cabezas Peaks8,320 ft
- Reiley Peak7,640 ft
- Greasewood Mountain7,090 ft
- Kane Spring Mountain6,910 ft
- Mae West Peaks6,733 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,150 ft at 32.2638° N, 109.8512° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- 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.