Cheraw, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,150 ft 1,265 m4,140 ft 1,260 m4,140 ft 1,260 m4,130 ft 1,260 m4,120 ft 1,255 m4,120 ft 1,255 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cheraw sits at about 4,130 ft (1,260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,130 ft 1,260 m
most residents: 4,120–4,140 ft
Lowest
4,120 ft 1,255 m
on the southwest side
Highest
4,150 ft 1,265 m
on the north side
Average
4,130 ft 1,260 m
all land inside town limits
Cheraw spans about 30 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 | 4,130 ft1,260 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 4,150 ft1,265 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 4,120 ft1,255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cheraw | 4,130 ft1,260 m |
| Airport (LHX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi south of the town limits | 4,229 ft1,289 m |
| Average of all land | 4,130 ft1,260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,130 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 (87.1 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
- Town in Otero County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 231 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,283 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1070° N, 103.5102° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- La Junta Municipal (LHX) 4,229 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 81030
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crowley4,350 ft
- Ordway4,320 ft
- Sugar City4,300 ft
- Manzanola4,270 ft
- Rocky Ford4,190 ft
- Cheraw4,130 ft
- Swink4,120 ft
- La Junta4,110 ft
- La Junta Gardens4,070 ft
- North La Junta4,050 ft
- Las Animas3,900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado448th highest of 484
- Towns in Otero County4th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Miller Mesa, Otero County4,440 ft
- Meredith Hill4,404 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (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.
- 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.