Las Tusas, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,800 ft 2,375 m7,690 ft 2,345 m7,640 ft 2,330 m7,540 ft 2,300 m7,440 ft 2,265 m7,380 ft 2,250 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
Las Tusas sits at about 7,510 ft (2,290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
7,510 ft 2,290 m
most residents: 7,450–7,580 ft
Lowest
7,380 ft 2,250 m
on the east side
Highest
7,800 ft 2,375 m
at the foot of the Zuñi Mountains
Average
7,530 ft 2,295 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Las Tusas spans about 420 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 | 7,510 ft2,290 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Zuñi Mountains | 7,800 ft2,375 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 7,380 ft2,250 m |
| Average of all land | 7,530 ft2,295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the middle of Las Tusas.
Altitude Effects
What 7,510 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
198.0 °F92.2 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
76% of sea level
22.6 inHg (76.7 kPa): each breath holds 24% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+15% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 271 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 91 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2736° N, 108.1295° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Rio San Jose → Rio Puerco → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 87323
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Las Tusas7,510 ft
- Bluewater7,460 ft
- Homer C Jones7,450 ft
- Stoneridge7,400 ft
- Continental Divide7,260 ft
- Thoreau7,170 ft
- Haystack7,070 ft
- Prewitt6,940 ft
- Red Rock Ranch6,930 ft
- Bluewater Village6,630 ft
- Golden Acres6,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico27th highest of 528
- Towns in Cibola Countyhighest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Taylor11,290 ft
- Cebollita Peak8,766 ft
- Mount Powell8,752 ft
- Salitre Mesa8,630 ft
- Hosta Butte8,624 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).
- 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.
- Las Tusas 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.