Luna County, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,410 ft 2,565 m7,300 ft 2,225 m6,740 ft 2,055 m5,630 ft 1,715 m4,510 ft 1,375 m3,960 ft 1,205 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
Luna County averages about 4,510 ft (1,375 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,960 ft on the southeast side to 8,411 ft on Cookes Peak.
Average elevation
4,510 ft 1,375 m
all land inside the county
Highest
8,411 ft 2,564 m
on Cookes Peak
Lowest
3,960 ft 1,205 m
on the southeast side
Luna County spans about 4,450 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 | 4,510 ft1,375 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Cookes Peak (NGS survey height) | 8,411 ft2,564 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 3,960 ft1,205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
57 mi south to north through Deming.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 25,878 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,965.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 8.7 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Grant County5,790 ft
- Sierra County5,480 ft
- Hidalgo County4,720 ft
- Luna County4,510 ft
- Doña Ana County4,450 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Mexico25th highest of 33
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cookes Peak8,411 ft
- Florida Peak7,420 ft
- Gym Peak7,080 ft
- Flying W Mountain6,210 ft
- Middle Peak5,760 ft
All 11 towns in Luna County by typical elevation
- Old Town4,880 ft
- Keeler Farm4,390 ft
- Deming4,330 ft
- Pulpotio Bareas4,320 ft
- Mountain View4,300 ft
- La Hacienda4,270 ft
- Pecan Park4,270 ft
- Ventura4,260 ft
- Sunshine4,260 ft
- City of the Sun4,140 ft
- Columbus4,080 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.
- 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.