Colfax County, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,590 ft 3,835 m10,800 ft 3,295 m9,910 ft 3,020 m8,130 ft 2,475 m6,340 ft 1,935 m5,450 ft 1,660 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
Colfax County averages about 7,250 ft (2,210 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,450 ft on the southeast side to 12,588 ft on Little Costilla Peak.
Average elevation
7,250 ft 2,210 m
all land inside the county
Highest
12,588 ft 3,837 m
on Little Costilla Peak
Lowest
5,450 ft 1,660 m
on the southeast side
Colfax County spans about 7,140 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 | 7,250 ft2,210 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Little Costilla Peak (NGS survey height) | 12,588 ft3,837 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 5,450 ft1,660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
66 mi west to east through Raton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 12,307 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,758.0 sq mi + 10.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.3 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 90%, Southern Rocky Mountains 10%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Costilla County, CO8,810 ft
- Taos County8,500 ft
- Colfax County7,250 ft
- Mora County7,190 ft
- Las Animas County, CO6,010 ft
- Union County5,440 ft
- Harding County5,040 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Mexico5th highest of 33
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Little Costilla Peak12,588 ft
- Baldy Mountain12,430 ft
- Mount Phillips11,742 ft
- Agua Fria Peak11,050 ft
- Laughlin Peak8,824 ft
All 7 towns in Colfax County by typical elevation
- Angel Fire8,620 ft
- Eagle Nest8,250 ft
- Ute Park7,400 ft
- Raton6,670 ft
- Cimarron6,450 ft
- Maxwell5,930 ft
- Springer5,860 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.