Genoa, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,610 ft 1,710 m5,600 ft 1,705 m5,590 ft 1,705 m5,580 ft 1,700 m5,570 ft 1,700 m5,560 ft 1,695 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
Genoa sits at about 5,600 ft (1,710 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,600 ft 1,710 m
most residents: 5,600–5,610 ft
Lowest
5,570 ft 1,695 m
on the east side
Highest
5,610 ft 1,710 m
on the southwest side
Average
5,600 ft 1,705 m
all land inside town limits
Genoa spans about 40 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 | 5,600 ft1,710 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 5,610 ft1,710 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 5,570 ft1,695 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Genoa | 5,600 ft1,710 m |
| Airport (LIC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi west of the town limits | 5,374 ft1,638 m |
| Average of all land | 5,600 ft1,705 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,600 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.6 °F94.2 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.3 inHg (82.4 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.0% 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
- Town in Lincoln County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 154 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 497 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2783° N, 103.5002° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Arikaree River → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Limon Municipal (LIC) 5,374 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 80818
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado280th highest of 484
- Towns in Lincoln Countyhighest of 4
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.