La Salle, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,720 ft 1,440 m4,700 ft 1,435 m4,690 ft 1,430 m4,680 ft 1,425 m4,660 ft 1,420 m4,650 ft 1,420 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
La Salle sits at about 4,680 ft (1,425 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,680 ft 1,425 m
most residents: 4,670–4,690 ft
Lowest
4,650 ft 1,420 m
on the north side
Highest
4,720 ft 1,440 m
on the southwest side
Average
4,680 ft 1,425 m
all land inside town limits
La Salle spans about 70 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 | 4,680 ft1,425 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 4,720 ft1,440 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 4,650 ft1,420 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Salle | 4,680 ft1,425 m |
| Airport (GXY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi northeast of the town limits | 4,697 ft1,432 m |
| Average of all land | 4,680 ft1,425 m |
Altitude Effects
What 4,680 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.3 °F95.2 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.2 inHg (85.3 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Weld County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 2,303 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 2,326 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3489° N, 104.7019° 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
- Greeley-weld County (GXY) 4,697 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 80645
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Johnstown4,910 ft
- Eaton4,830 ft
- Platteville4,810 ft
- Windsor4,800 ft
- Milliken4,760 ft
- Greeley4,750 ft
- Gilcrest4,750 ft
- Evans4,730 ft
- Garden City4,700 ft
- La Salle4,680 ft
- Kersey4,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado398th highest of 484
- Towns in Weld County27th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Longs Peak14,250 ft
- Twin Sisters Mountain11,400 ft
- Starr Peak10,510 ft
- West White Pine Mountain10,311 ft
- Deer Mountain10,010 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.