Montrose County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,460 ft 3,495 m9,770 ft 2,980 m8,920 ft 2,720 m7,230 ft 2,205 m5,540 ft 1,690 m4,700 ft 1,430 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
Montrose County averages about 6,970 ft (2,125 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,700 ft on the west side to 11,460 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
6,970 ft 2,125 m
all land inside the county
Highest
11,460 ft 3,495 m
on the east side
Lowest
4,700 ft 1,430 m
on the west side
Montrose County spans about 6,760 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 | 6,970 ft2,125 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 11,460 ft3,495 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 4,700 ft1,430 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
84 mi west to east through Montrose.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 44,806 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,240.9 sq mi + 1.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 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
- Gunnison County9,550 ft
- Ouray County9,020 ft
- San Miguel County7,950 ft
- Delta County6,980 ft
- Montrose County6,970 ft
- Mesa County6,870 ft
- San Juan County, UT5,700 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado36th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States64th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Horse Mesa, Montrose County10,750 ft
- Flat Top, Montrose County10,140 ft
- Spruce Mountain, Montrose County9,736 ft
- Poverty Mesa9,710 ft
- Cathedral Peak, Montrose County9,590 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. 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,700 ft at 38.4999° N, 108.8935° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.