Crestone, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,170 ft 2,490 m8,090 ft 2,465 m8,050 ft 2,455 m7,970 ft 2,430 m7,900 ft 2,405 m7,860 ft 2,395 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
Crestone sits at about 7,940 ft (2,420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
7,940 ft 2,420 m
most residents: 7,890–7,980 ft
Lowest
7,860 ft 2,395 m
on the southwest side
Highest
8,170 ft 2,490 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
7,970 ft 2,430 m
all land inside town limits
Crestone spans about 310 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 | 7,940 ft2,420 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 8,170 ft2,490 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 7,860 ft2,395 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Crestone | 7,930 ft2,415 m |
| Average of all land | 7,970 ft2,430 m |
| Nearest peak Kit Carson Mountain, 4.8 mi east of the town limits | 14,130 ft4,305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 7,940 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
197.2 °F91.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
74% of sea level
22.3 inHg (75.4 kPa): each breath holds 26% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+16% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Saguache County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 140 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 364 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9964° N, 105.6997° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- San Luis Creek → Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 81131
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Silver Cliff8,000 ft
- Crestone7,940 ft
- Westcliffe7,870 ft
- Saguache7,700 ft
- Center7,640 ft
- Moffat7,560 ft
- Hooper7,560 ft
- Howard6,990 ft
- Gardner6,970 ft
- Coaldale6,690 ft
- Cotopaxi6,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado87th highest of 484
- Towns in Saguache Countyhighest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kit Carson Mountain14,130 ft
- Humboldt Peak14,040 ft
- Rito Alto Peak13,803 ft
- Mount Herard13,340 ft
- Mount Zwischen11,990 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.