Mesa County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,240 ft 3,425 m9,510 ft 2,900 m8,650 ft 2,635 m6,930 ft 2,110 m5,200 ft 1,585 m4,340 ft 1,320 m
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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
Mesa County averages about 6,870 ft (2,095 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,340 ft on the west side to 11,241 ft on Leon Peak.
Average elevation
6,870 ft 2,095 m
all land inside the county
Highest
11,241 ft 3,426 m
on Leon Peak
Lowest
4,340 ft 1,320 m
on the west side
Mesa County spans about 6,900 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 | 6,870 ft2,095 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Leon Peak (NGS survey height) | 11,241 ft3,426 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 4,340 ft1,320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
71 mi west to east through Grand Junction.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 161,260 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,328.7 sq mi + 12.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Pitkin County9,970 ft
- Gunnison County9,550 ft
- Garfield County7,910 ft
- Delta County6,980 ft
- Montrose County6,970 ft
- Mesa County6,870 ft
- Grand County, UT5,770 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado37th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States69th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Leon Peak11,241 ft
- The Flat Tops10,770 ft
- Bald Mountain, Mesa County10,740 ft
- Flagpole Mountain10,610 ft
- Piñon Mesa9,690 ft
All 10 towns in Mesa County by typical elevation
- Collbran6,020 ft
- De Beque4,950 ft
- Palisade4,720 ft
- Fruitvale4,720 ft
- Orchard Mesa4,670 ft
- Clifton4,660 ft
- Redlands4,650 ft
- Grand Junction4,640 ft
- Loma4,540 ft
- Fruita4,520 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.
- 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.