Federal Heights, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,560 ft 1,695 m5,490 ft 1,675 m5,460 ft 1,665 m5,390 ft 1,640 m5,320 ft 1,620 m5,280 ft 1,610 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
Federal Heights sits at about 5,480 ft (1,670 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,480 ft 1,670 m
most residents: 5,350–5,550 ft
Lowest
5,280 ft 1,610 m
near the middle
Highest
5,560 ft 1,695 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,460 ft 1,665 m
all land inside city limits
Federal Heights spans about 280 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 | 5,480 ft1,670 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 5,560 ft1,695 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 5,280 ft1,610 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Federal Heights | 5,300 ft1,615 m |
| Airport (BJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi northwest of the city limits | 5,673 ft1,729 m |
| Average of all land | 5,460 ft1,665 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,480 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.8 °F94.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.5 inHg (82.8 kPa): each breath holds 18% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.1% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+11% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Adams County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 13,971 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 7,871 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8514° N, 104.9986° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Platte River → Middle Channel Platte River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rocky Mountain Metro (BJC) 5,673 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 80260
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shaw Heights5,510 ft
- Federal Heights5,480 ft
- Westminster5,380 ft
- Northglenn5,360 ft
- Sherrelwood5,330 ft
- Berkley5,270 ft
- Twin Lakes5,240 ft
- Thornton5,230 ft
- Welby5,200 ft
- North Washington5,180 ft
- Derby5,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado296th highest of 484
- Towns in Adams County3rd highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Blue Sky14,230 ft
- North Arapaho Peak13,490 ft
- Parry Peak13,350 ft
- Twin Sisters Mountain11,400 ft
- Starr Peak10,510 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 5,280 ft at 39.8518° N, 104.9976° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.