Lordsburg, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,500 ft 1,370 m4,420 ft 1,350 m4,380 ft 1,335 m4,300 ft 1,310 m4,220 ft 1,290 m4,190 ft 1,275 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lordsburg sits at about 4,270 ft (1,300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,270 ft 1,300 m
most residents: 4,230–4,340 ft
Lowest
4,190 ft 1,275 m
on the north side
Highest
4,500 ft 1,370 m
at the foot of the Pyramid Mountains
Average
4,270 ft 1,300 m
all land inside city limits
Lordsburg spans about 310 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 | 4,270 ft1,300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Pyramid Mountains | 4,500 ft1,370 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 4,190 ft1,275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lordsburg | 4,250 ft1,295 m |
| Airport (LSB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 4,288 ft1,307 m |
| Average of all land | 4,270 ft1,300 m |
| Nearest peak Rimrock Mountain, 8.3 mi south of the city limits | 5,770 ft1,760 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,270 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.1 °F95.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
86% of sea level
25.6 inHg (86.6 kPa): each breath holds 14% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.9% 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
- City in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 2,203 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.4 sq mi
- Density
- 261 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.3504° N, 108.7087° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Lake Tank basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Lordsburg Municipal (LSB) 4,288 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 88045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White Signal6,060 ft
- Playas4,480 ft
- Animas4,400 ft
- Windmill4,360 ft
- Lordsburg4,270 ft
- Cotton City4,240 ft
- Glen Acres4,190 ft
- Redrock4,040 ft
- Virden3,760 ft
- Franklin, AZ3,730 ft
- San Simon, AZ3,610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico448th highest of 528
- Towns in Hidalgo County4th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burro Peak8,030 ft
- Grey Mountain6,931 ft
- Hachita Peak6,637 ft
- Rimrock Mountain5,770 ft
- Blue Mountain5,750 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, 4,180 ft at 32.3643° N, 108.7051° 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.