Duran, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,340 ft 1,935 m6,290 ft 1,920 m6,270 ft 1,910 m6,220 ft 1,895 m6,170 ft 1,880 m6,140 ft 1,870 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
Duran sits at about 6,230 ft (1,900 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
6,230 ft 1,900 m
few residents
Lowest
6,140 ft 1,870 m
on the east side
Highest
6,340 ft 1,935 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
6,230 ft 1,900 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Duran spans about 200 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 | 6,230 ft1,900 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 6,340 ft1,935 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 6,140 ft1,870 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Duran | 6,280 ft1,915 m |
| Average of all land | 6,230 ft1,900 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,230 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.4 °F93.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.8 inHg (80.5 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+12% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 44 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi
- Density
- 9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4673° N, 105.3969° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 88318
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Corona6,690 ft
- Deer Canyon6,600 ft
- Mountainair6,540 ft
- Duran6,230 ft
- McIntosh6,170 ft
- Encino6,120 ft
- Estancia6,110 ft
- Willard6,100 ft
- Vaughn5,980 ft
- Pastura5,290 ft
- Puerto de Luna4,500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico213th highest of 528
- Towns in Torrance County9th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Carrizo Mountain9,620 ft
- West Mountain8,770 ft
- Gallinas Peak8,640 ft
- Tucson Mountain8,310 ft
- Lone Mountain8,140 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).
- 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.
- Duran 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.