Alamo, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,300 ft 2,225 m6,970 ft 2,125 m6,810 ft 2,075 m6,490 ft 1,975 m6,160 ft 1,880 m6,000 ft 1,830 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Alamo sits at about 6,370 ft (1,940 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,370 ft 1,940 m
most residents: 6,160–6,470 ft
Lowest
6,000 ft 1,830 m
on the east side
Highest
7,300 ft 2,225 m
on the north side
Average
6,340 ft 1,935 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Alamo spans about 1,300 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 | 6,370 ft1,940 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 7,300 ft2,225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 6,000 ft1,830 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alamo | 6,180 ft1,885 m |
| Average of all land | 6,340 ft1,935 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,370 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.2 °F93.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.6 inHg (80.1 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Socorro County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 1,150 2020 Census
- Land area
- 39.2 sq mi
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4209° N, 107.5109° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Rio Salado → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 87825
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico198th highest of 528
- Towns in Socorro County2nd highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Baldy10,789 ft
- Madre Mountain9,550 ft
- Ladron Peak9,186 ft
- Cebollita Peak8,766 ft
- Mesa Gallina7,840 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.
- Alamo 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.