Custer County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
14,180 ft 4,320 m12,070 ft 3,680 m11,010 ft 3,355 m8,900 ft 2,715 m6,790 ft 2,070 m5,730 ft 1,745 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Custer County averages about 9,030 ft (2,750 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,730 ft on the northeast side to 14,180 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
9,030 ft 2,750 m
all land inside the county
Highest
14,180 ft 4,320 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
5,730 ft 1,745 m
on the northeast side
Custer County spans about 8,450 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 9,030 ft2,750 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 14,180 ft4,320 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 5,730 ft1,745 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
34 mi west to east through Silver Cliff.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 5,553 2024 est.
- Land area
- 738.6 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains 96%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Saguache County9,240 ft
- Custer County9,030 ft
- Fremont County7,550 ft
- Huerfano County7,460 ft
- Pueblo County5,230 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado17th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States17th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Humboldt Peak14,040 ft
- Rito Alto Peak13,803 ft
- Colony Baldy13,680 ft
- Broken Hand Peak13,540 ft
- Hardscrabble Mountain10,380 ft
All 2 towns in Custer County by typical elevation
- Silver Cliff8,000 ft
- Westcliffe7,870 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.