Ouray County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
14,100 ft 4,300 m12,160 ft 3,705 m11,190 ft 3,410 m9,240 ft 2,815 m7,290 ft 2,225 m6,320 ft 1,925 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
Ouray County averages about 9,020 ft (2,750 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 6,320 ft on the north side to 14,100 ft on Mount Sneffels.
Average elevation
9,020 ft 2,750 m
all land inside the county
Highest
14,100 ft 4,300 m
on Mount Sneffels
Lowest
6,320 ft 1,925 m
on the north side
Ouray County spans about 7,780 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 | 9,020 ft2,750 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Sneffels (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 14,100 ft4,300 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 6,320 ft1,925 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
26 mi south to north through Ridgway.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 5,197 2024 est.
- Land area
- 540.7 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Southern Rocky Mountains 54%, Colorado Plateaus 46%
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- San Juan County11,390 ft
- Hinsdale County10,910 ft
- Gunnison County9,550 ft
- Ouray County9,020 ft
- San Miguel County7,950 ft
- Montrose County6,970 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado18th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States18th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Sneffels14,100 ft
- Potosi Peak13,790 ft
- Teakettle Mountain13,720 ft
- Gilpin Peak13,660 ft
- Horsefly Peak10,353 ft
All 5 towns in Ouray County by typical elevation
- Ouray7,800 ft
- Loghill Village7,790 ft
- Portland7,210 ft
- Ridgway7,040 ft
- Colona6,360 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; 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; 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.