La Villita, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,800 ft 1,765 m5,760 ft 1,755 m5,750 ft 1,750 m5,710 ft 1,740 m5,680 ft 1,730 m5,660 ft 1,725 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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 Villita sits at about 5,750 ft (1,750 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,750 ft 1,750 m
most residents: 5,680–5,760 ft
Lowest
5,660 ft 1,725 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,800 ft 1,765 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
5,710 ft 1,740 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
La Villita spans about 140 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 | 5,750 ft1,750 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 5,800 ft1,765 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 5,660 ft1,725 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Villita | 5,710 ft1,740 m |
| Airport (E14) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi south of the CDP boundary | 5,760 ft1,756 m |
| Average of all land | 5,710 ft1,740 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,750 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.3 °F94.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.2 inHg (82.0 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 Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 999 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 736 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1034° N, 106.0481° 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
- 87511
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Canova5,780 ft
- Los Luceros5,770 ft
- La Villita5,750 ft
- Lyden5,730 ft
- El Duende5,710 ft
- Chamita5,700 ft
- Hernandez5,700 ft
- Pueblito5,690 ft
- Alcalde5,690 ft
- Ohkay Owingeh5,670 ft
- San Jose5,660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico293rd highest of 528
- Towns in Rio Arriba County27th highest of 39
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Middle Truchas Peak13,060 ft
- Trampas Peak12,170 ft
- Chicoma Mountain11,561 ft
- Picuris Peak10,810 ft
- Sierra Negra8,059 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, 5,660 ft at 36.0915° N, 106.0637° 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 Villita 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.