Security-Widefield, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,990 ft 1,825 m5,890 ft 1,795 m5,840 ft 1,780 m5,740 ft 1,750 m5,640 ft 1,720 m5,590 ft 1,705 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Security-Widefield sits at about 5,790 ft (1,765 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,790 ft 1,765 m
most residents: 5,690–5,920 ft
Lowest
5,590 ft 1,705 m
on the south side
Highest
5,990 ft 1,825 m
on the northeast side
Average
5,800 ft 1,770 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Security-Widefield spans about 400 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 | 5,790 ft1,765 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 5,990 ft1,825 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 5,590 ft1,705 m |
| Airport (COS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi north of the CDP boundary | 6,187 ft1,886 m |
| Average of all land | 5,800 ft1,770 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the middle of Security-Widefield.
Altitude Effects
What 5,790 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.2 °F94.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.2 inHg (81.8 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+12% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in El Paso County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 38,639 2020 Census
- Land area
- 12.8 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,007 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7464° N, 104.7198° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Fountain Creek → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS) 6,187 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 80817 80911 80925
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cascade-Chipita Park7,690 ft
- Black Forest7,420 ft
- Air Force Academy6,840 ft
- Cimarron Hills6,430 ft
- Manitou Springs6,410 ft
- Colorado Springs6,400 ft
- Rock Creek Park6,290 ft
- Fort Carson5,880 ft
- Stratmoor5,840 ft
- Security-Widefield5,790 ft
- Fountain5,640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado261st highest of 484
- Towns in El Paso County19th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pikes Peak14,115 ft
- Saddle Mountain, Park County10,790 ft
- Thunder Butte9,837 ft
- Devils Head9,700 ft
- Curley Peak9,630 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Security-Widefield is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.