Craig, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,490 ft 1,975 m6,410 ft 1,955 m6,370 ft 1,940 m6,290 ft 1,915 m6,200 ft 1,890 m6,160 ft 1,880 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Craig sits at about 6,230 ft (1,900 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,230 ft 1,900 m
most residents: 6,190–6,340 ft
Lowest
6,160 ft 1,880 m
on the southwest side
Highest
6,490 ft 1,975 m
on the northeast side
Average
6,250 ft 1,905 m
all land inside city limits
Craig spans about 330 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 | 6,230 ft1,900 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 6,490 ft1,975 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 6,160 ft1,880 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Craig | 6,200 ft1,890 m |
| Airport (CAG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi southeast of the city limits | 6,198 ft1,889 m |
| Average of all land | 6,250 ft1,905 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,230 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.4 °F93.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.8 inHg (80.5 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.6% 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
- City in Moffat County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 8,903 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,755 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5152° N, 107.5465° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Wyoming Basin
- Drains to
- Yampa River → Green River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Craig-moffat (CAG) 6,198 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 81625
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Carbonate10,860 ft
- Yampa7,870 ft
- Phippsburg7,480 ft
- Oak Creek7,460 ft
- Steamboat Springs6,840 ft
- Hayden6,380 ft
- Dixon, WY6,360 ft
- Meeker6,280 ft
- Baggs, WY6,250 ft
- Craig6,230 ft
- Maybell5,920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado215th highest of 484
- Towns in Moffat Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Mountain, Moffat County10,840 ft
- Sleepy Cat Peak10,820 ft
- Bakers Peak9,410 ft
- Thornburgh Mountain8,240 ft
- Juniper Mountain7,870 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).
- 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. All public domain.