Yuma County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,440 ft 1,355 m4,160 ft 1,270 m4,020 ft 1,225 m3,740 ft 1,140 m3,470 ft 1,055 m3,330 ft 1,015 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Yuma County averages about 3,920 ft (1,195 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,330 ft on the east side to 4,440 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
3,920 ft 1,195 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,440 ft 1,355 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
3,330 ft 1,015 m
on the east side
Yuma County spans about 1,110 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 3,920 ft1,195 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 4,440 ft1,355 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,330 ft1,015 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
39 mi west to east through Yuma.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 10,048 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,364.4 sq mi + 4.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.2 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 79%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 21%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Washington County4,600 ft
- Kit Carson County4,420 ft
- Logan County4,190 ft
- Yuma County3,920 ft
- Phillips County3,820 ft
- Cheyenne County, KS3,460 ft
- Chase County, NE3,340 ft
- Dundy County, NE3,300 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado59th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States268th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Yuma4,163 ft
- Old Baldy, Yuma County4,072 ft
- Peate Hill3,830 ft
- Pawnee Hill3,670 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.