House, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,750 ft 1,450 m4,730 ft 1,445 m4,720 ft 1,440 m4,700 ft 1,435 m4,690 ft 1,430 m4,680 ft 1,425 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
House sits at about 4,700 ft (1,435 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,700 ft 1,435 m
most residents: 4,690–4,720 ft
Lowest
4,680 ft 1,425 m
on the north side
Highest
4,750 ft 1,450 m
on the west side
Average
4,710 ft 1,435 m
all land inside village limits
House spans about 70 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 | 4,700 ft1,435 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 4,750 ft1,450 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 4,680 ft1,425 m |
| Town center USGS map point for House | 4,700 ft1,435 m |
| Average of all land | 4,710 ft1,435 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,700 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.3 °F95.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.2 inHg (85.3 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Quay County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 54 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 59 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.6467° N, 103.9044° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 88121
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- House4,700 ft
- Grady4,600 ft
- Newkirk4,570 ft
- Puerto de Luna4,500 ft
- Melrose4,410 ft
- Lake Sumner4,340 ft
- Cannon AFB4,320 ft
- Clovis4,290 ft
- Tucumcari4,100 ft
- Floyd4,090 ft
- Fort Sumner4,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico407th highest of 528
- Towns in Quay Countyhighest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mountain, Quay County5,030 ft
- Lone Mesa, Quay County4,930 ft
- Twin Mesa4,630 ft
- Candy Mesa4,570 ft
- Taiban Peak4,410 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village limits (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.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.