Archuleta County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,310 ft 4,055 m11,500 ft 3,505 m10,590 ft 3,230 m8,780 ft 2,675 m6,970 ft 2,125 m6,060 ft 1,850 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Archuleta County averages about 8,230 ft (2,505 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 6,060 ft on the southwest side to 13,308 ft on Summit Peak.
Average elevation
8,230 ft 2,505 m
all land inside the county
Highest
13,308 ft 4,056 m
on Summit Peak
Lowest
6,060 ft 1,850 m
on the southwest side
Archuleta County spans about 7,250 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 8,230 ft2,505 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Summit Peak (NGS survey height) | 13,308 ft4,056 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 6,060 ft1,850 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
44 mi west to east through Pagosa Springs.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 14,112 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,350.1 sq mi + 5.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 10 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Colorado Plateaus 87%, Southern Rocky Mountains 13%
- Drains to
- Gulf of California 88%, Gulf of America 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hinsdale County10,910 ft
- Mineral County10,510 ft
- Rio Grande County9,060 ft
- Conejos County9,000 ft
- Archuleta County8,230 ft
- La Plata County8,010 ft
- Rio Arriba County, NM7,670 ft
- San Juan County, NM6,050 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado23rd highest of 62
- Counties in the United States25th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Summit Peak13,308 ft
- Montezuma Peak13,140 ft
- Banded Peak12,786 ft
- Horse Mountain9,940 ft
- Archuleta Mesa9,230 ft
All 2 towns in Archuleta County by typical elevation
- Pagosa Springs7,150 ft
- Arboles6,240 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.