Bent County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,860 ft 1,480 m4,560 ft 1,390 m4,410 ft 1,345 m4,120 ft 1,255 m3,820 ft 1,165 m3,670 ft 1,120 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
Bent County averages about 4,140 ft (1,260 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,670 ft on the northeast side to 4,860 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
4,140 ft 1,260 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,860 ft 1,480 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
3,670 ft 1,120 m
on the northeast side
Bent County spans about 1,190 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 | 4,140 ft1,260 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 4,860 ft1,480 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 3,670 ft1,120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
43 mi south to north through Las Animas.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 5,779 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,512.8 sq mi + 28.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Las Animas County6,010 ft
- Otero County4,450 ft
- Baca County4,300 ft
- Kiowa County4,170 ft
- Bent County4,140 ft
- Prowers County3,810 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado58th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States252nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Round Mound4,620 ft
- Mothers Hill4,520 ft
- Wildcat Hill4,500 ft
- Ninemile Hill, Bent County4,263 ft
- Eagle Nest4,200 ft
All 3 towns in Bent County by typical elevation
- Las Animas3,900 ft
- Hasty3,890 ft
- McClave3,860 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. 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.