Cotton City, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,280 ft 1,305 m4,250 ft 1,295 m4,240 ft 1,295 m4,220 ft 1,285 m4,200 ft 1,280 m4,190 ft 1,275 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
Cotton City sits at about 4,240 ft (1,290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,240 ft 1,290 m
most residents: 4,210–4,260 ft
Lowest
4,190 ft 1,275 m
on the north side
Highest
4,280 ft 1,305 m
on the south side
Average
4,220 ft 1,285 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cotton City 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 | 4,240 ft1,290 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 4,280 ft1,305 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 4,190 ft1,275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cotton City | 4,240 ft1,290 m |
| Average of all land | 4,220 ft1,285 m |
| Nearest peak Blue Mountain, 2.9 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 5,750 ft1,750 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,240 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.1 °F95.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
86% of sea level
25.6 inHg (86.7 kPa): each breath holds 14% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.9% 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 Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 266 2020 Census
- Land area
- 25.8 sq mi
- Density
- 10 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.0884° N, 108.8792° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Lake Tank basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 88020
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico456th highest of 528
- Towns in Hidalgo County5th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gillespie Mountain7,300 ft
- Grey Mountain6,931 ft
- Hachita Peak6,637 ft
- Rimrock Mountain5,770 ft
- Blue Mountain5,750 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).
- 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, 4,170 ft at 32.1504° N, 108.8571° 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.
- Cotton City 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.