Casas Adobes, NM Elevation & Topographic Map

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
Casas Adobes sits at about 5,830 ft (1,775 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Casas Adobes spans about 810 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 | 5,830 ft1,775 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Mimbres Mountains | 6,510 ft1,985 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 5,700 ft1,740 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Casas Adobes | 5,820 ft1,775 m |
| Average of all land | 5,890 ft1,795 m |
| Nearest peak Whitehorse Mountain, 6.6 mi south of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,561 ft2,305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,830 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
24.1 inHg (81.7 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Grant County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 279 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 301 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.8104° N, 107.9399° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Mimbres River → Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 2
- 88041 88049
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hanover6,410 ft
- Kingston6,310 ft
- Cobre5,990 ft
- Santa Clara5,970 ft
- Mimbres5,900 ft
- Casas Adobes5,830 ft
- Bayard5,820 ft
- San Lorenzo5,710 ft
- Hurley5,700 ft
- North Hurley5,690 ft
- Faywood5,190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico280th highest of 528
- Towns in Grant County14th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- McKnight Mountain10,160 ft
- Hillsboro10,015 ft
- Sawyers Peak9,660 ft
- Signal Peak8,940 ft
- Whitehorse Mountain7,561 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.
- Casas Adobes 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.