Montezuma County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,220 ft 4,030 m11,060 ft 3,370 m9,980 ft 3,045 m7,830 ft 2,385 m5,670 ft 1,730 m4,600 ft 1,400 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
Montezuma County averages about 6,840 ft (2,085 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,600 ft on the southwest side to 13,220 ft on Hesperus Mountain.
Average elevation
6,840 ft 2,085 m
all land inside the county
Highest
13,220 ft 4,030 m
on Hesperus Mountain
Lowest
4,600 ft 1,400 m
on the southwest side
Montezuma County spans about 8,620 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 | 6,840 ft2,085 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Hesperus Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 13,220 ft4,030 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 4,600 ft1,400 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
46 mi west to east through Cortez.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 26,841 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,029.3 sq mi + 10.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Dolores County8,280 ft
- La Plata County8,010 ft
- Montezuma County6,840 ft
- San Juan County, NM6,050 ft
- San Juan County, UT5,700 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado39th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States73rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hesperus Mountain13,220 ft
- Mount Moss13,170 ft
- Ute Peak9,984 ft
- Black Mountain9,400 ft
- Park Point8,581 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.