Lee Acres, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,730 ft 1,745 m5,620 ft 1,715 m5,570 ft 1,695 m5,460 ft 1,665 m5,350 ft 1,630 m5,290 ft 1,615 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
Lee Acres sits at about 5,400 ft (1,645 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,400 ft 1,645 m
most residents: 5,310–5,520 ft
Lowest
5,290 ft 1,615 m
on the west side
Highest
5,730 ft 1,745 m
on the north side
Average
5,440 ft 1,660 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lee Acres spans about 440 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 | 5,400 ft1,645 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 5,730 ft1,745 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 5,290 ft1,615 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lee Acres | 5,470 ft1,665 m |
| Airport (FMN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi west of the CDP boundary | 5,507 ft1,679 m |
| Average of all land | 5,440 ft1,660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,400 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.0 °F94.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.5 inHg (83.1 kPa): each breath holds 18% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+11% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 4,170 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 404 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6989° N, 108.0367° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- San Juan River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Four Corners Regional (FMN) 5,507 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 87401 87413
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crouch Mesa5,700 ft
- Aztec5,650 ft
- Spencerville5,630 ft
- South River5,610 ft
- Flora Vista5,550 ft
- Angustura5,540 ft
- Sullivan5,530 ft
- Bloomfield5,490 ft
- West Hammond5,420 ft
- Lee Acres5,400 ft
- Totah Vista5,290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico345th highest of 528
- Towns in San Juan County30th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Knickerbocker Peaks6,785 ft
- Mockingbird Hill6,220 ft
- Hood Mesa6,040 ft
- Bald Mesa5,760 ft
- Martin Mesa5,670 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, 5,290 ft at 36.7035° N, 108.1410° 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.
- Lee Acres 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.