Lea County, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,480 ft 1,365 m4,080 ft 1,245 m3,880 ft 1,185 m3,490 ft 1,065 m3,090 ft 940 m2,890 ft 880 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lea County averages about 3,790 ft (1,155 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,890 ft on the south side to 4,480 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
3,790 ft 1,155 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,480 ft 1,365 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
2,890 ft 880 m
on the south side
Lea County spans about 1,590 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 3,790 ft1,155 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 4,480 ft1,365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 2,890 ft880 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
108 mi south to north through Hobbs.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 75,151 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,391.6 sq mi + 3.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 67%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 17%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Roosevelt County4,250 ft
- Chaves County4,250 ft
- Cochran County, TX3,800 ft
- Lea County3,790 ft
- Eddy County3,750 ft
- Yoakum County, TX3,650 ft
- Gaines County, TX3,320 ft
- Andrews County, TX3,180 ft
- Loving County, TX2,940 ft
- Winkler County, TX2,920 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Mexico32nd highest of 33
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Soldier Hill, Lea County4,420 ft
- Hat Mesa3,920 ft
- Indian Hill, Lea County3,740 ft
- Custer Mountain3,310 ft
- Red Hill, Lea County3,310 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 2,880 ft at 32.0154° N, 103.2540° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.