Towaoc, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,450 ft 1,965 m6,250 ft 1,905 m6,150 ft 1,875 m5,950 ft 1,810 m5,740 ft 1,750 m5,640 ft 1,720 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
Towaoc sits at about 5,960 ft (1,815 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,960 ft 1,815 m
most residents: 5,830–6,040 ft
Lowest
5,640 ft 1,720 m
on the east side
Highest
6,450 ft 1,965 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
6,010 ft 1,830 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Towaoc spans about 810 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 | 5,960 ft1,815 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 6,450 ft1,965 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 5,640 ft1,720 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Towaoc | 5,910 ft1,805 m |
| Airport (CEZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 5,918 ft1,804 m |
| Average of all land | 6,010 ft1,830 m |
| Nearest peak Ute Peak, 3.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 9,984 ft3,043 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,960 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.9 °F93.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
80% of sea level
24.0 inHg (81.3 kPa): each breath holds 20% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.8% 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 Montezuma County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 1,120 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Density
- 312 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2044° N, 108.7295° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Navajo Wash → San Juan River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Cortez Municipal (CEZ) 5,918 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 81334
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mancos7,000 ft
- Dolores6,960 ft
- Marvel6,730 ft
- Lewis6,660 ft
- Cortez6,160 ft
- Towaoc5,960 ft
- Beclabito, NM5,610 ft
- Waterflow, NM5,100 ft
- Shiprock, NM5,000 ft
- Aneth, UT4,590 ft
- Montezuma Creek, UT4,430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado233rd highest of 484
- Towns in Montezuma Countylowest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hesperus Mountain13,220 ft
- Ute Peak9,984 ft
- Pastora Peak9,410 ft
- Black Mountain, Montezuma County9,400 ft
- Park Point8,581 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.
- Towaoc 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.