Huerfano County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
14,330 ft 4,365 m12,060 ft 3,675 m10,920 ft 3,330 m8,650 ft 2,635 m6,380 ft 1,945 m5,240 ft 1,600 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
Huerfano County averages about 7,460 ft (2,275 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,240 ft on the northeast side to 14,330 ft on Blanca Peak.
Average elevation
7,460 ft 2,275 m
all land inside the county
Highest
14,330 ft 4,365 m
on Blanca Peak
Lowest
5,240 ft 1,600 m
on the northeast side
Huerfano County spans about 9,090 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 | 7,460 ft2,275 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Blanca Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 14,330 ft4,365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 5,240 ft1,600 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
52 mi west to east through Walsenburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 6,988 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,591.0 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.4 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 77%, Southern Rocky Mountains 23%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Saguache County9,240 ft
- Custer County9,030 ft
- Costilla County8,810 ft
- Alamosa County7,790 ft
- Huerfano County7,460 ft
- Las Animas County6,010 ft
- Pueblo County5,230 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado31st highest of 62
- Counties in the United States46th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- West Spanish Peak13,560 ft
- Mount Mestas11,550 ft
- Raspberry Mountain11,220 ft
- Sheep Mountain10,570 ft
- Silver Mountain10,510 ft
All 4 towns in Huerfano County by typical elevation
- Cuchara8,890 ft
- La Veta7,040 ft
- Gardner6,970 ft
- Walsenburg6,210 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.
- 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.