Cannon AFB, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,350 ft 1,325 m4,330 ft 1,320 m4,320 ft 1,315 m4,290 ft 1,310 m4,270 ft 1,300 m4,260 ft 1,300 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
Cannon AFB sits at about 4,320 ft (1,320 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,320 ft 1,320 m
most residents: 4,310–4,340 ft
Lowest
4,260 ft 1,300 m
on the southeast side
Highest
4,350 ft 1,325 m
on the east side
Average
4,290 ft 1,310 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cannon AFB 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 | 4,320 ft1,320 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 4,350 ft1,325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 4,260 ft1,300 m |
| Airport (CVN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi east of the CDP boundary | 4,216 ft1,285 m |
| Average of all land | 4,290 ft1,310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the middle of Cannon AFB.
Altitude Effects
What 4,320 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.0 °F95.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
85% of sea level
25.5 inHg (86.5 kPa): each breath holds 15% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Curry County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 1,978 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.9 sq mi
- Density
- 337 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4071° N, 103.3284° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Clovis Regional (CVN) 4,216 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 88101 88103
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico441st highest of 528
- Towns in Curry County3rd highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chalk Hill4,060 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.
- Cannon AFB 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.