Naturita, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,830 ft 1,780 m5,720 ft 1,745 m5,660 ft 1,725 m5,540 ft 1,690 m5,430 ft 1,655 m5,370 ft 1,635 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Naturita sits at about 5,430 ft (1,655 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,430 ft 1,655 m
most residents: 5,410–5,550 ft
Lowest
5,370 ft 1,635 m
on the west side
Highest
5,830 ft 1,780 m
on the southwest side
Average
5,510 ft 1,680 m
all land inside town limits
Naturita spans about 460 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 5,430 ft1,655 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 5,830 ft1,780 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 5,370 ft1,635 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Naturita | 5,420 ft1,650 m |
| Airport (AIB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi north of the town limits | 5,945 ft1,812 m |
| Average of all land | 5,510 ft1,680 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,430 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.9 °F94.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.5 inHg (83.0 kPa): each breath holds 18% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+11% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 481 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 766 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2183° N, 108.5687° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Dolores River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Hopkins Field (AIB) 5,945 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 81422
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Loghill Village7,790 ft
- Sawpit7,580 ft
- Placerville7,460 ft
- Norwood7,020 ft
- Dove Creek6,860 ft
- La Sal, UT6,740 ft
- Redvale6,430 ft
- Montrose5,860 ft
- Nucla5,750 ft
- Naturita5,430 ft
- Olathe5,360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado303rd highest of 484
- Towns in Montrose County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lone Cone12,590 ft
- Groundhog Mountain12,070 ft
- Little Cone11,989 ft
- North Mountain9,960 ft
- Belmear Mountain9,650 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.