Leadville North, CO Elevation & Topographic Map

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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Leadville North sits at about 10,070 ft (3,070 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Leadville North spans about 490 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 | 10,070 ft3,070 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Mosquito Range | 10,230 ft3,115 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 9,740 ft2,970 m |
| Airport (LXV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi south of the CDP boundary | 9,934 ft3,028 m |
| Average of all land | 10,010 ft3,050 m |
| Nearest peak Buckeye Peak, 5.8 mi northeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 12,873 ft3,924 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the middle of Leadville North.
Altitude Effects
What 10,070 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
20.5 inHg (69.5 kPa): each breath holds 31% less air.
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
CDC: about 1 in 4 visitors who sleep above 8,000 ft get altitude sickness. CDC Yellow Book
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lake County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 1,892 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 773 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2567° N, 106.3048° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lake County (LXV) 9,934 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 80461
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Copper Mountain11,530 ft
- Alma10,400 ft
- Leadville10,130 ft
- Blue River10,090 ft
- Leadville North10,070 ft
- Fairplay9,950 ft
- Breckenridge9,670 ft
- Twin Lakes, Lake County9,620 ft
- Red Cliff8,660 ft
- Norrie8,450 ft
- Minturn7,860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado8th highest of 484
- Towns in Lake County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Massive14,400 ft
- Mount Bross14,179 ft
- Mount Sherman14,030 ft
- Homestake Peak13,216 ft
- Buckeye Peak12,873 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Leadville North is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.