Twin Lakes, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,320 ft 1,625 m5,280 ft 1,610 m5,260 ft 1,600 m5,210 ft 1,590 m5,170 ft 1,575 m5,150 ft 1,570 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
Twin Lakes sits at about 5,240 ft (1,600 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,240 ft 1,600 m
most residents: 5,210–5,280 ft
Lowest
5,150 ft 1,570 m
on the east side
Highest
5,320 ft 1,620 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,230 ft 1,595 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Twin Lakes spans about 170 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 | 5,240 ft1,600 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 5,320 ft1,620 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 5,150 ft1,570 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Twin Lakes | 5,250 ft1,600 m |
| Airport (BJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 5,673 ft1,729 m |
| Average of all land | 5,230 ft1,595 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,240 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.3 °F94.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.7 inHg (83.5 kPa): each breath holds 18% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.3% 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
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Adams County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 8,226 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 5,010 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8250° N, 105.0047° 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 Colorado335th highest of 484
- Towns in Adams County9th 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.
- Twin Lakes 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.