Cattle Creek, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,910 ft 2,105 m6,660 ft 2,030 m6,540 ft 1,995 m6,290 ft 1,920 m6,040 ft 1,840 m5,920 ft 1,805 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Cattle Creek sits at about 6,020 ft (1,835 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,020 ft 1,835 m
most residents: 6,000–6,250 ft
Lowest
5,920 ft 1,805 m
on the northwest side
Highest
6,910 ft 2,105 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
6,280 ft 1,915 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cattle Creek spans about 990 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 | 6,020 ft1,835 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 6,910 ft2,105 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 5,920 ft1,805 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cattle Creek | 6,040 ft1,840 m |
| Airport (GWS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 5,921 ft1,805 m |
| Average of all land | 6,280 ft1,915 m |
| Nearest peak Sunlight Peak, 6.3 mi west of the CDP boundary | 10,600 ft3,230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,020 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.8 °F93.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
80% of sea level
24.0 inHg (81.1 kPa): each breath holds 20% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.8% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+12% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Garfield County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 662 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 511 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4583° N, 107.2626° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Kgws Sumers Airpark (GWS) 5,921 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 81601
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Basalt6,620 ft
- El Jebel6,460 ft
- Catherine6,330 ft
- Mulford6,240 ft
- Carbondale6,190 ft
- Dotsero6,140 ft
- Cattle Creek6,020 ft
- Chacra5,860 ft
- Glenwood Springs5,830 ft
- No Name5,820 ft
- New Castle5,730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado226th highest of 484
- Towns in Garfield County5th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Sopris12,940 ft
- Basalt Mountain10,882 ft
- Flagpole Mountain10,610 ft
- Sunlight Peak10,600 ft
- Blowout Hill8,700 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).
- 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.
- Cattle Creek 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.