Delta County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,400 ft 3,475 m9,740 ft 2,970 m8,900 ft 2,715 m7,240 ft 2,205 m5,570 ft 1,700 m4,740 ft 1,445 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
Delta County averages about 6,980 ft (2,130 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,740 ft on the west side to 11,402 ft on Mount Lamborn.
Average elevation
6,980 ft 2,130 m
all land inside the county
Highest
11,402 ft 3,475 m
on Mount Lamborn
Lowest
4,740 ft 1,445 m
on the west side
Delta County spans about 6,660 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 | 6,980 ft2,130 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Lamborn (NGS survey height) | 11,402 ft3,475 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 4,740 ft1,445 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
23 mi south to north through Delta.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 32,215 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,142.1 sq mi + 6.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Gunnison County9,550 ft
- Delta County6,980 ft
- Montrose County6,970 ft
- Mesa County6,870 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado35th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States62nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Lamborn11,402 ft
- Crater Peak11,333 ft
- Mount Hatten11,320 ft
- Spruce Mountain10,838 ft
- Saddle Mountain10,000 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.