New Castle, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,350 ft 1,935 m6,150 ft 1,875 m6,040 ft 1,840 m5,840 ft 1,780 m5,630 ft 1,715 m5,530 ft 1,685 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
New Castle sits at about 5,730 ft (1,745 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,730 ft 1,745 m
most residents: 5,570–5,920 ft
Lowest
5,530 ft 1,685 m
on the southwest side
Highest
6,350 ft 1,935 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
5,790 ft 1,765 m
all land inside town limits
New Castle spans about 820 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 | 5,730 ft1,745 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 6,350 ft1,935 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 5,530 ft1,685 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Castle | 5,580 ft1,700 m |
| Average of all land | 5,790 ft1,765 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,730 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.3 °F94.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.2 inHg (82.0 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.0% 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 Garfield County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 4,894 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,961 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5728° N, 107.5364° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 81647
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Carbonate10,860 ft
- Catherine6,330 ft
- Mulford6,240 ft
- Carbondale6,190 ft
- Cattle Creek6,020 ft
- Chacra5,860 ft
- Glenwood Springs5,830 ft
- No Name5,820 ft
- New Castle5,730 ft
- Silt5,480 ft
- Rifle5,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado265th highest of 484
- Towns in Garfield County9th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blair Mountain11,460 ft
- Haystack Mountain10,980 ft
- Flagpole Mountain10,610 ft
- Sunlight Peak10,600 ft
- Monument Peak9,211 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.