Walden, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,140 ft 2,480 m8,110 ft 2,475 m8,100 ft 2,470 m8,080 ft 2,465 m8,060 ft 2,455 m8,050 ft 2,455 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Walden sits at about 8,110 ft (2,470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
8,110 ft 2,470 m
most residents: 8,080–8,120 ft
Lowest
8,050 ft 2,455 m
on the northwest side
Highest
8,140 ft 2,480 m
on the east side
Average
8,090 ft 2,465 m
all land inside town limits
Walden spans about 90 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 | 8,110 ft2,470 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 8,140 ft2,480 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 8,050 ft2,455 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Walden | 8,100 ft2,470 m |
| Airport (33V) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi northeast of the town limits | 8,154 ft2,485 m |
| Average of all land | 8,090 ft2,465 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 8,110 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
196.9 °F91.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
74% of sea level
22.1 inHg (75.0 kPa): each breath holds 26% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.5% 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 Jackson County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 557 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,663 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7316° N, 106.2836° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- North Platte River → Middle Channel Platte River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Walden-jackson County (33V) 8,154 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 80480
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fox Park, WY9,070 ft
- Albany, WY8,630 ft
- Ryan Park, WY8,450 ft
- Grand Lake8,400 ft
- Centennial, WY8,290 ft
- Red Feather Lakes8,290 ft
- Walden8,110 ft
- Woods Landing-Jelm, WY7,480 ft
- Encampment, WY7,310 ft
- Riverside, WY7,150 ft
- Steamboat Springs6,840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado77th highest of 484
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Clark Peak12,954 ft
- Flattop Mountain12,127 ft
- Mount Ethel11,920 ft
- Owl Mountain10,950 ft
- Independence Mountain9,800 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.