Severance, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,330 ft 1,625 m5,200 ft 1,585 m5,130 ft 1,565 m4,990 ft 1,520 m4,860 ft 1,480 m4,790 ft 1,460 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Severance sits at about 4,890 ft (1,490 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,890 ft 1,490 m
most residents: 4,840–4,940 ft
Lowest
4,790 ft 1,460 m
on the south side
Highest
5,330 ft 1,625 m
on the north side
Average
5,000 ft 1,525 m
all land inside town limits
Severance spans about 540 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 | 4,890 ft1,490 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 5,330 ft1,625 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 4,790 ft1,460 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Severance | 4,890 ft1,490 m |
| Average of all land | 5,000 ft1,525 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,890 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.9 °F95.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.0 inHg (84.7 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Weld County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 11,554 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 896 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5241° N, 104.8511° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Platte River → Middle Channel Platte River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 5
- 80524 80546 80550 80610 80615
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Nunn5,190 ft
- Pierce5,040 ft
- Fort Collins5,000 ft
- Ault4,940 ft
- Severance4,890 ft
- Timnath4,840 ft
- Eaton4,830 ft
- Windsor4,800 ft
- Greeley4,750 ft
- Evans4,730 ft
- Garden City4,700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado379th highest of 484
- Towns in Weld County16th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hagues Peak13,572 ft
- Fairchild Mountain13,500 ft
- Twin Sisters Mountain11,400 ft
- West White Pine Mountain10,311 ft
- Deer Mountain10,010 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,790 ft at 40.4840° N, 104.8699° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.