Smeltertown, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,200 ft 2,195 m7,170 ft 2,185 m7,160 ft 2,180 m7,130 ft 2,175 m7,100 ft 2,165 m7,090 ft 2,160 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Smeltertown sits at about 7,140 ft (2,175 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
7,140 ft 2,175 m
few residents
Lowest
7,090 ft 2,160 m
on the southeast side
Highest
7,200 ft 2,195 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
7,140 ft 2,175 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Smeltertown spans about 110 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 7,140 ft2,175 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 7,200 ft2,195 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 7,090 ft2,160 m |
| Airport (ANK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi west of the CDP boundary | 7,523 ft2,293 m |
| Average of all land | 7,140 ft2,175 m |
| Nearest peak Cameron Mountain, 7.0 mi northeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 10,988 ft3,349 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the middle of Smeltertown.
Altitude Effects
What 7,140 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
198.7 °F92.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
77% of sea level
23.0 inHg (77.8 kPa): each breath holds 23% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.1% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+14% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 88 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 603 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5501° N, 106.0082° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Salida/harriett Alexander Field (ANK) 7,523 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 81201
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Garfield9,590 ft
- Maysville8,490 ft
- Buena Vista7,960 ft
- Johnson Village7,860 ft
- Nathrop7,680 ft
- Poncha Springs7,450 ft
- Smeltertown7,140 ft
- Salida7,090 ft
- Howard6,990 ft
- Coaldale6,690 ft
- Cotopaxi6,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado146th highest of 484
- Towns in Chaffee County7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Antero14,276 ft
- Mount Shavano14,232 ft
- Mount Ouray13,961 ft
- Chipeta Mountain13,480 ft
- Cameron Mountain10,988 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Smeltertown 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.