Sherrelwood, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,510 ft 1,680 m5,420 ft 1,650 m5,380 ft 1,640 m5,290 ft 1,615 m5,210 ft 1,590 m5,170 ft 1,575 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
Sherrelwood sits at about 5,330 ft (1,625 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,330 ft 1,625 m
most residents: 5,240–5,380 ft
Lowest
5,170 ft 1,575 m
on the southeast side
Highest
5,510 ft 1,680 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,320 ft 1,620 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sherrelwood spans about 340 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 | 5,330 ft1,625 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 5,510 ft1,680 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 5,170 ft1,575 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sherrelwood | 5,290 ft1,610 m |
| Airport (BJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 5,673 ft1,729 m |
| Average of all land | 5,320 ft1,620 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,330 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 (83.3 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
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Adams County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 19,426 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Density
- 7,919 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8378° N, 105.0014° 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
- Airport
- Rocky Mountain Metro (BJC) 5,673 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 80221
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shaw Heights5,510 ft
- Federal Heights5,480 ft
- Westminster5,380 ft
- Northglenn5,360 ft
- Sherrelwood5,330 ft
- Berkley5,270 ft
- Twin Lakes5,240 ft
- Thornton5,230 ft
- Welby5,200 ft
- North Washington5,180 ft
- Commerce City5,160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado328th highest of 484
- Towns in Adams County7th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Blue Sky14,230 ft
- North Arapaho Peak13,490 ft
- Parry Peak13,350 ft
- Starr Peak10,510 ft
- Green Mountain, Jefferson County10,427 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.
- Sherrelwood 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.