Las Animas, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,920 ft 1,195 m3,910 ft 1,190 m3,900 ft 1,190 m3,900 ft 1,185 m3,890 ft 1,185 m3,880 ft 1,185 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Las Animas sits at about 3,900 ft (1,190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,900 ft 1,190 m
most residents: 3,890–3,910 ft
Lowest
3,880 ft 1,185 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,920 ft 1,195 m
on the west side
Average
3,900 ft 1,190 m
all land inside city limits
Las Animas spans about 40 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 | 3,900 ft1,190 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 3,920 ft1,195 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 3,880 ft1,185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Las Animas | 3,900 ft1,190 m |
| Airport (7V9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi southwest of the city limits | 3,915 ft1,193 m |
| Average of all land | 3,900 ft1,190 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,900 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.8 °F96.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
25.9 inHg (87.8 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bent County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 2,361 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,452 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0667° N, 103.2227° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- City of Las Animas - Bent County (7V9) 3,915 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 81054
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Haswell4,550 ft
- Sugar City4,300 ft
- Rocky Ford4,190 ft
- Cheraw4,130 ft
- Swink4,120 ft
- La Junta4,110 ft
- La Junta Gardens4,070 ft
- North La Junta4,050 ft
- Las Animas3,900 ft
- Hasty3,890 ft
- McClave3,860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado466th highest of 484
- Towns in Bent Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ninemile Hill, Bent County4,263 ft
- Eagle Nest4,200 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.