Jackson County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,920 ft 3,935 m11,620 ft 3,545 m10,980 ft 3,345 m9,680 ft 2,950 m8,390 ft 2,555 m7,740 ft 2,360 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
Jackson County averages about 8,900 ft (2,710 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 7,740 ft on the north side to 12,920 ft on Mount Richthofen.
Average elevation
8,900 ft 2,710 m
all land inside the county
Highest
12,920 ft 3,935 m
on Mount Richthofen
Lowest
7,740 ft 2,360 m
on the north side
Jackson County spans about 5,180 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 | 8,900 ft2,710 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Richthofen (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 12,920 ft3,935 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 7,740 ft2,360 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
44 mi south to north through Walden.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 1,273 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,613.7 sq mi + 7.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Grand County9,280 ft
- Jackson County8,900 ft
- Routt County8,190 ft
- Larimer County7,790 ft
- Albany County, WY7,460 ft
- Carbon County, WY7,300 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado20th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States20th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Sheep Mountain11,825 ft
- Radial Mountain11,240 ft
- Owl Mountain10,950 ft
- Black Mountain10,770 ft
- Independence Mountain9,800 ft
The one town in Jackson County
- Walden8,110 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, 7,740 ft at 40.9979° N, 106.3474° 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.