La Luz, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,950 ft 1,815 m5,580 ft 1,700 m5,400 ft 1,645 m5,030 ft 1,535 m4,660 ft 1,420 m4,480 ft 1,365 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
La Luz sits at about 4,680 ft (1,425 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,680 ft 1,425 m
most residents: 4,550–4,780 ft
Lowest
4,480 ft 1,365 m
on the west side
Highest
5,950 ft 1,815 m
at the foot of the Coyote Hills
Average
4,920 ft 1,500 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
La Luz spans about 1,470 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 | 4,680 ft1,425 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Coyote Hills | 5,950 ft1,815 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 4,480 ft1,365 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Luz | 4,750 ft1,445 m |
| Average of all land | 4,920 ft1,500 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,680 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.3 °F95.2 °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
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Otero County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 1,578 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.7 sq mi
- Density
- 148 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.9779° N, 105.9419° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Lake Lucero basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 2
- 88310 88337
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cloudcroft8,760 ft
- Twin Forks7,820 ft
- Sacramento7,680 ft
- Mescalero7,130 ft
- High Rolls6,770 ft
- Bent5,900 ft
- La Luz4,680 ft
- Tularosa4,520 ft
- Alamogordo4,400 ft
- Boles Acres4,110 ft
- Holloman AFB4,070 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico408th highest of 528
- Towns in Otero County11th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sierra Blanca Peak11,981 ft
- Cub Mountain7,870 ft
- Onate Mountain7,250 ft
- Kaylor Mountain7,220 ft
- Sheep Mountain6,940 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).
- 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, 4,470 ft at 32.9840° N, 105.9643° 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.
- La Luz 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.