Jal, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,160 ft 960 m3,120 ft 950 m3,100 ft 945 m3,060 ft 930 m3,020 ft 920 m3,000 ft 915 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jal sits at about 3,030 ft (925 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,030 ft 925 m
most residents: 3,020–3,090 ft
Lowest
3,000 ft 915 m
on the south side
Highest
3,160 ft 960 m
on the northeast side
Average
3,060 ft 935 m
all land inside city limits
Jal spans about 160 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 | 3,030 ft925 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 3,160 ft960 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 3,000 ft915 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jal | 3,070 ft935 m |
| Airport (E26) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi northeast of the city limits | 3,118 ft950 m |
| Average of all land | 3,060 ft935 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,030 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.4 °F96.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
90% of sea level
26.8 inHg (90.7 kPa): each breath holds 10% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.8% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lea County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 2,192 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.8 sq mi
- Density
- 454 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.1132° N, 103.1935° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Pecos River → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lea County/jal (E26) 3,118 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 88252
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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 Mexico527th highest of 528
- Towns in Lea Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Custer Mountain3,310 ft
- Old Baldy, Lea County3,240 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).
- 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.