San Miguel County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,990 ft 4,265 m11,810 ft 3,600 m10,730 ft 3,270 m8,560 ft 2,610 m6,390 ft 1,945 m5,300 ft 1,615 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
San Miguel County averages about 7,950 ft (2,425 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,300 ft on the northwest side to 13,990 ft on Wilson Peak.
Average elevation
7,950 ft 2,425 m
all land inside the county
Highest
13,990 ft 4,265 m
on Wilson Peak
Lowest
5,300 ft 1,615 m
on the northwest side
San Miguel County spans about 8,690 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 | 7,950 ft2,425 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Wilson Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 13,990 ft4,265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 5,300 ft1,615 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
71 mi west to east through Telluride.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 7,819 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,286.7 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Colorado Plateaus 84%, Southern Rocky Mountains 16%
- 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
- Ouray County9,020 ft
- Dolores County8,280 ft
- San Miguel County7,950 ft
- Montrose County6,970 ft
- San Juan County, UT5,700 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado26th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States31st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wilson Peak13,990 ft
- Vermilion Peak13,870 ft
- Lone Cone12,590 ft
- Little Cone11,989 ft
- North Mountain9,960 ft
All 6 towns in San Miguel County by typical elevation
- Ophir9,720 ft
- Mountain Village9,290 ft
- Telluride8,760 ft
- Sawpit7,580 ft
- Placerville7,460 ft
- Norwood7,020 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.