City of the Sun, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,170 ft 1,270 m4,160 ft 1,265 m4,150 ft 1,265 m4,140 ft 1,260 m4,120 ft 1,255 m4,120 ft 1,255 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
City of the Sun sits at about 4,140 ft (1,265 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
4,140 ft 1,265 m
few residents
Lowest
4,120 ft 1,255 m
on the northeast side
Highest
4,170 ft 1,270 m
on the northwest side
Average
4,140 ft 1,265 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
City of the Sun spans about 50 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 4,140 ft1,265 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 4,170 ft1,270 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 4,120 ft1,255 m |
| Average of all land | 4,140 ft1,265 m |
| Nearest peak Middle Peak, 5.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 5,760 ft1,755 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the middle of City of the Sun.
Altitude Effects
What 4,140 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.3 °F95.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
86% of sea level
25.7 inHg (87.0 kPa): each breath holds 14% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.0% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Luna County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 33 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 130 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.8440° N, 107.6485° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 88029
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hachita4,520 ft
- Keeler Farm4,390 ft
- Deming4,330 ft
- Pulpotio Bareas4,320 ft
- Mountain View4,300 ft
- La Hacienda4,270 ft
- Pecan Park4,270 ft
- Ventura4,260 ft
- Sunshine4,260 ft
- City of the Sun4,140 ft
- Columbus4,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico463rd highest of 528
- Towns in Luna County10th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Hatchet Peak8,350 ft
- Florida Peak7,420 ft
- Flying W Mountain6,210 ft
- Mount Riley5,907 ft
- Middle Peak5,760 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²) (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts) and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,120 ft at 31.8457° N, 107.6465° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- City of the Sun 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.