Orchard City, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,110 ft 1,865 m5,840 ft 1,780 m5,700 ft 1,735 m5,420 ft 1,650 m5,140 ft 1,565 m5,000 ft 1,525 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Orchard City sits at about 5,350 ft (1,630 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,350 ft 1,630 m
most residents: 5,160–5,620 ft
Lowest
5,000 ft 1,525 m
on the south side
Highest
6,110 ft 1,865 m
on the northeast side
Average
5,370 ft 1,635 m
all land inside town limits
Orchard City spans about 1,110 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 | 5,350 ft1,630 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 6,110 ft1,865 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 5,000 ft1,525 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Orchard City | 5,450 ft1,660 m |
| Airport (AJZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi southwest of the town limits | 5,193 ft1,583 m |
| Average of all land | 5,370 ft1,635 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,350 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.1 °F94.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.6 inHg (83.2 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 Delta County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 3,276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.5 sq mi
- Density
- 284 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8283° N, 107.9709° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gunnison River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Blake Field (AJZ) 5,193 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 81410 81418
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado324th highest of 484
- Towns in Delta County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Coal Mountain11,680 ft
- Mount Lamborn11,402 ft
- Mount Hatten11,320 ft
- Saddle Mountain, Delta County10,000 ft
- Buck Mesa9,810 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.