El Morro Valley, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,790 ft 2,375 m7,620 ft 2,320 m7,530 ft 2,295 m7,350 ft 2,240 m7,180 ft 2,190 m7,090 ft 2,160 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
El Morro Valley sits at about 7,260 ft (2,215 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
7,260 ft 2,215 m
few residents
Lowest
7,090 ft 2,160 m
on the west side
Highest
7,790 ft 2,375 m
on the east side
Average
7,270 ft 2,215 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
El Morro Valley spans about 700 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 | 7,260 ft2,215 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 7,790 ft2,375 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 7,090 ft2,160 m |
| Average of all land | 7,270 ft2,215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.1 mi west to east through the middle of El Morro Valley.
Altitude Effects
What 7,260 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
198.5 °F92.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
76% of sea level
22.9 inHg (77.4 kPa): each breath holds 24% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.0% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+15% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 47 2020 Census
- Land area
- 13.3 sq mi
- Density
- 4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0390° N, 108.3507° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Rio Pescado → Zuni River → Little Colorado River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 87321
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McGaffey7,810 ft
- Las Tusas7,510 ft
- Pinehill7,470 ft
- Bluewater7,460 ft
- Homer C Jones7,450 ft
- Stoneridge7,400 ft
- Candy Kitchen7,370 ft
- El Morro Valley7,260 ft
- Mountain View, Cibola County7,130 ft
- Timberlake7,120 ft
- Ramah6,960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico56th highest of 528
- Towns in Cibola County5th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Taylor11,290 ft
- Madre Mountain9,550 ft
- Cebollita Peak8,766 ft
- Mount Powell8,752 ft
- Hosta Butte8,624 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, 7,090 ft at 35.0354° N, 108.4026° 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.
- El Morro Valley 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.