El Valle de Arroyo Seco, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,140 ft 1,870 m6,020 ft 1,835 m5,960 ft 1,815 m5,840 ft 1,780 m5,730 ft 1,745 m5,670 ft 1,730 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 Valle de Arroyo Seco sits at about 5,820 ft (1,770 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,820 ft 1,770 m
most residents: 5,730–5,880 ft
Lowest
5,670 ft 1,730 m
on the northwest side
Highest
6,140 ft 1,870 m
on the southwest side
Average
5,850 ft 1,785 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
El Valle de Arroyo Seco spans about 470 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 | 5,820 ft1,770 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 6,140 ft1,870 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 5,670 ft1,730 m |
| Town center USGS map point for El Valle de Arroyo Seco | 5,730 ft1,745 m |
| Airport (E14) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi north of the CDP boundary | 5,760 ft1,756 m |
| Average of all land | 5,850 ft1,785 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,820 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.2 °F94.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.1 inHg (81.8 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.9% 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 Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 1,431 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Density
- 279 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.9628° N, 106.0295° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Ohkay Owingeh (E14) 5,760 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 87532
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chimayo6,100 ft
- Pojoaque5,920 ft
- La Puebla5,850 ft
- El Valle de Arroyo Seco5,820 ft
- Jacona5,780 ft
- Cuartelez5,770 ft
- Santa Cruz5,710 ft
- Sombrillo5,700 ft
- Española5,630 ft
- Santa Clara Pueblo5,630 ft
- La Mesilla5,600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico282nd highest of 528
- Towns in Santa Fe County43rd highest of 52
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Middle Truchas Peak13,060 ft
- Santa Fe Baldy12,620 ft
- Trampas Peak12,170 ft
- Chicoma Mountain11,561 ft
- Thompson Peak10,557 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).
- 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 Valle de Arroyo Seco 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.