Commerce City, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,470 ft 1,665 m5,350 ft 1,630 m5,290 ft 1,610 m5,170 ft 1,575 m5,050 ft 1,540 m4,990 ft 1,520 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Commerce City sits at about 5,160 ft (1,575 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,160 ft 1,575 m
most residents: 5,070–5,210 ft
Lowest
4,990 ft 1,520 m
on the north side
Highest
5,470 ft 1,665 m
on the east side
Average
5,160 ft 1,575 m
all land inside city limits
Commerce City spans about 480 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 | 5,160 ft1,575 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 5,470 ft1,665 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 4,990 ft1,520 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Commerce City | 5,160 ft1,575 m |
| Airport (DEN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi east of the city limits | 5,434 ft1,656 m |
| Average of all land | 5,160 ft1,575 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,160 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.4 °F94.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.7 inHg (83.8 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Adams County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 70,245 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,903 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8083° N, 104.9339° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Platte River → Middle Channel Platte River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Denver International (DEN) 5,434 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 80022 80601 80603 80640
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Federal Heights5,480 ft
- Westminster5,380 ft
- Denver5,340 ft
- Sherrelwood5,330 ft
- Berkley5,270 ft
- Twin Lakes5,240 ft
- Thornton5,230 ft
- Welby5,200 ft
- North Washington5,180 ft
- Commerce City5,160 ft
- Derby5,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado348th highest of 484
- Towns in Adams County13th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Blue Sky14,230 ft
- North Arapaho Peak13,490 ft
- Starr Peak10,510 ft
- Green Mountain, Jefferson County10,427 ft
- Devils Head9,700 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, 4,980 ft at 39.8937° N, 104.8951° 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.