Silver Cliff, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,340 ft 2,850 m8,980 ft 2,735 m8,800 ft 2,680 m8,430 ft 2,570 m8,070 ft 2,460 m7,890 ft 2,405 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Silver Cliff sits at about 8,000 ft (2,440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
8,000 ft 2,440 m
most residents: 7,950–8,520 ft
Lowest
7,890 ft 2,405 m
near the middle
Highest
9,340 ft 2,850 m
at the foot of the Rosita Hills
Average
8,280 ft 2,525 m
all land inside town limits
Silver Cliff spans about 1,450 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 | 8,000 ft2,440 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, at the foot of the Rosita Hills | 9,340 ft2,850 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 7,890 ft2,405 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Silver Cliff | 7,990 ft2,435 m |
| Airport (C08) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi southeast of the town limits | 8,290 ft2,527 m |
| Average of all land | 8,280 ft2,525 m |
| Nearest peak Hardscrabble Mountain, Custer County, 8.6 mi east of the town limits | 10,380 ft3,165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 8,000 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
197.1 °F91.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
74% of sea level
22.2 inHg (75.3 kPa): each breath holds 26% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+16% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
CDC: about 1 in 4 visitors who sleep above 8,000 ft get altitude sickness. CDC Yellow Book
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Custer County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 703 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.5 sq mi
- Density
- 45 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1353° N, 105.4464° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Grape Creek → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Silver West (C08) 8,290 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 81252
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Silver Cliff8,000 ft
- Crestone7,940 ft
- Westcliffe7,870 ft
- Coaldale6,690 ft
- Cotopaxi6,400 ft
- Rockvale5,490 ft
- Town of Coal Creek5,430 ft
- Williamsburg5,420 ft
- Lincoln Park5,380 ft
- Brookside5,380 ft
- Cañon City5,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado82nd highest of 484
- Towns in Custer Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kit Carson Mountain14,130 ft
- Humboldt Peak14,040 ft
- Rito Alto Peak13,803 ft
- Hardscrabble Mountain, Custer County10,380 ft
- Curley Peak9,630 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).
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.