Mineral County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,840 ft 4,220 m12,300 ft 3,750 m11,520 ft 3,510 m9,980 ft 3,040 m8,430 ft 2,570 m7,650 ft 2,335 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
Mineral County averages about 10,510 ft (3,205 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 7,650 ft on the south side to 13,840 ft in the La Garita Mountains.
Average elevation
10,510 ft 3,205 m
all land inside the county
Highest
13,840 ft 4,220 m
in the La Garita Mountains
Lowest
7,650 ft 2,335 m
on the south side
Mineral County spans about 6,190 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 | 10,510 ft3,205 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, in the La Garita Mountains | 13,840 ft4,220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 7,650 ft2,335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
39 mi south to north through City of Creede.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 933 2024 est.
- Land area
- 875.8 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains 96%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 58%, Gulf of California 42%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hinsdale County10,910 ft
- Mineral County10,510 ft
- Saguache County9,240 ft
- Rio Grande County9,060 ft
- Archuleta County8,230 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado4th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States4th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Baldy Cinco13,390 ft
- South River Peak13,110 ft
- Fisher Mountain12,760 ft
- Bristol Head12,700 ft
- Snowshoe Mountain12,013 ft
The one town in Mineral County
- City of Creede8,840 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. 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.