Moffat County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,840 ft 3,305 m9,390 ft 2,860 m8,660 ft 2,640 m7,200 ft 2,195 m5,750 ft 1,750 m5,020 ft 1,530 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
Moffat County averages about 6,720 ft (2,050 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,020 ft on the west side to 10,840 ft on Black Mountain.
Average elevation
6,720 ft 2,050 m
all land inside the county
Highest
10,840 ft 3,305 m
on Black Mountain
Lowest
5,020 ft 1,530 m
on the west side
Moffat County spans about 5,820 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 | 6,720 ft2,050 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Black Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 10,840 ft3,305 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 5,020 ft1,530 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
85 mi west to east through Craig.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 13,142 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,743.3 sq mi + 7.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Wyoming Basin 71%, Middle Rocky Mountains 21%
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Routt County8,190 ft
- Daggett County, UT7,630 ft
- Carbon County, WY7,300 ft
- Rio Blanco County7,220 ft
- Sweetwater County, WY6,870 ft
- Moffat County6,720 ft
- Uintah County, UT6,250 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado40th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States77th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Black Mountain10,840 ft
- Diamond Peak9,660 ft
- Middle Mountain9,564 ft
- Bakers Peak9,410 ft
- Long Mountain9,278 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.