Lake County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
14,420 ft 4,395 m13,060 ft 3,980 m12,380 ft 3,770 m11,010 ft 3,355 m9,650 ft 2,940 m8,970 ft 2,735 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
Lake County averages about 10,950 ft (3,340 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 8,970 ft on the southeast side to 14,420 ft on Mount Elbert.
Average elevation
10,950 ft 3,340 m
all land inside the county
Highest
14,420 ft 4,395 m
on Mount Elbert
Lowest
8,970 ft 2,735 m
on the southeast side
Lake County spans about 5,450 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 | 10,950 ft3,340 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Elbert (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 14,420 ft4,395 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 8,970 ft2,735 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through Leadville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 7,369 2024 est.
- Land area
- 376.9 sq mi + 7.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lake County10,950 ft
- Summit County10,490 ft
- Chaffee County9,980 ft
- Pitkin County9,970 ft
- Park County9,720 ft
- Eagle County9,060 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado2nd highest of 62
- Counties in the United States2nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Elbert14,420 ft
- Mount Massive14,400 ft
- Mount Sherman14,030 ft
- French Mountain13,920 ft
- Buckeye Peak12,873 ft
All 3 towns in Lake County by typical elevation
- Leadville10,130 ft
- Leadville North10,070 ft
- Twin Lakes, Lake County9,620 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; 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; 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.