Twin Lakes, Lake County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,840 ft 3,000 m9,640 ft 2,940 m9,540 ft 2,910 m9,350 ft 2,850 m9,150 ft 2,790 m9,050 ft 2,760 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
Twin Lakes, Lake County sits at about 9,620 ft (2,935 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
9,620 ft 2,935 m
most residents: 9,450–9,710 ft
Lowest
9,050 ft 2,760 m
on the southeast side
Highest
9,840 ft 3,000 m
on the west side
Average
9,410 ft 2,870 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Twin Lakes, Lake County spans about 790 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 | 9,620 ft2,935 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 9,840 ft3,000 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 9,050 ft2,760 m |
| Airport (LXV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi north of the CDP boundary | 9,934 ft3,028 m |
| Average of all land | 9,410 ft2,870 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Elbert, 4.3 mi west of the CDP boundary | 14,420 ft4,395 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the middle of Twin Lakes, Lake County.
Altitude Effects
What 9,620 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
194.1 °F90.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
70% of sea level
20.9 inHg (70.7 kPa): each breath holds 30% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
14.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+19% 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
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lake County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 204 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1034° N, 106.3262° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lake County (LXV) 9,934 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 80461 81251
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Alma10,400 ft
- Leadville10,130 ft
- Blue River10,090 ft
- Leadville North10,070 ft
- Fairplay9,950 ft
- Twin Lakes, Lake County9,620 ft
- Norrie8,450 ft
- Buena Vista7,960 ft
- Aspen7,930 ft
- Johnson Village7,860 ft
- Nathrop7,680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado16th highest of 484
- Towns in Lake Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Elbert14,420 ft
- Mount Massive14,400 ft
- La Plata Peak14,320 ft
- Mount Oxford14,150 ft
- West Buffalo Peak13,320 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 9,040 ft at 39.0774° N, 106.2824° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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, Lake County 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. All public domain.