Elbert County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,370 ft 2,245 m6,770 ft 2,065 m6,470 ft 1,970 m5,860 ft 1,785 m5,260 ft 1,605 m4,960 ft 1,510 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
Elbert County averages about 5,970 ft (1,820 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,960 ft on the northeast side to 7,370 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
5,970 ft 1,820 m
all land inside the county
Highest
7,370 ft 2,245 m
on the west side
Lowest
4,960 ft 1,510 m
on the northeast side
Elbert County spans about 2,410 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 | 5,970 ft1,820 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 7,370 ft2,245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 4,960 ft1,510 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
51 mi west to east through Ponderosa Park.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 29,382 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,850.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 16 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Douglas County6,850 ft
- El Paso County6,460 ft
- Elbert County5,970 ft
- Arapahoe County5,450 ft
- Lincoln County5,130 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado43rd highest of 62
- Counties in the United States111th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Eagle Rock, Elbert County6,310 ft
- Cedar Point, Elbert County5,994 ft
- Rocky Peak, Elbert County5,990 ft
- Matheson Hill5,985 ft
- Cheyenne Lookout5,760 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.