Gunnison County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
14,240 ft 4,340 m12,160 ft 3,705 m11,120 ft 3,390 m9,030 ft 2,755 m6,950 ft 2,120 m5,910 ft 1,800 m
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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
Gunnison County averages about 9,550 ft (2,910 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,910 ft on the northwest side to 14,240 ft on Castle Peak.
Average elevation
9,550 ft 2,910 m
all land inside the county
Highest
14,240 ft 4,340 m
on Castle Peak
Lowest
5,910 ft 1,800 m
on the northwest side
Gunnison County spans about 8,330 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 | 9,550 ft2,910 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Castle Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 14,240 ft4,340 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 5,910 ft1,800 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
40 mi south to north through Gunnison.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 17,310 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,239.1 sq mi + 20.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.3 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains 96%
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hinsdale County10,910 ft
- Chaffee County9,980 ft
- Pitkin County9,970 ft
- Gunnison County9,550 ft
- Saguache County9,240 ft
- Ouray County9,020 ft
- Delta County6,980 ft
- Montrose County6,970 ft
- Mesa County6,870 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado10th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States10th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Maroon Bells14,130 ft
- Treasure Mountain13,530 ft
- Monumental Peak13,360 ft
- Italian Mountain13,340 ft
- Henry Mountain13,260 ft
All 6 towns in Gunnison County by typical elevation
- Mount Crested Butte9,490 ft
- Pitkin9,230 ft
- Crested Butte8,890 ft
- Marble7,990 ft
- Gunnison7,710 ft
- Somerset6,020 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; 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, 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.
- 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, 5,900 ft at 38.9179° N, 107.4993° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.