Hobbs, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,720 ft 1,135 m3,690 ft 1,125 m3,670 ft 1,120 m3,640 ft 1,110 m3,610 ft 1,100 m3,590 ft 1,095 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hobbs sits at about 3,630 ft (1,105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,630 ft 1,105 m
most residents: 3,610–3,650 ft
Lowest
3,590 ft 1,095 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,720 ft 1,135 m
on the northwest side
Average
3,650 ft 1,110 m
all land inside city limits
Hobbs spans about 130 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 | 3,630 ft1,105 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 3,720 ft1,135 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 3,590 ft1,095 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hobbs | 3,620 ft1,105 m |
| Airport (HOB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi west of the city limits | 3,661 ft1,116 m |
| Average of all land | 3,650 ft1,110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,630 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.3 °F96.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.2 inHg (88.7 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lea County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 41,061 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,554 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.7026° N, 103.1360° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beals Creek → Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lea County Regional (HOB) 3,661 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 88240 88242 88244
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico510th highest of 528
- Towns in Lea County4th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Indian Hill, Lea County3,740 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, 3,590 ft at 32.6865° N, 103.1199° 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.