Meadow Lake, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,050 ft 1,845 m5,790 ft 1,765 m5,670 ft 1,730 m5,420 ft 1,650 m5,170 ft 1,575 m5,040 ft 1,535 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
Meadow Lake sits at about 5,310 ft (1,615 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,310 ft 1,615 m
most residents: 5,110–5,520 ft
Lowest
5,040 ft 1,535 m
on the west side
Highest
6,050 ft 1,845 m
at the foot of the Manzanita Mountains
Average
5,360 ft 1,635 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Meadow Lake spans about 1,010 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 | 5,310 ft1,615 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Manzanita Mountains | 6,050 ft1,845 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 5,040 ft1,535 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Meadow Lake | 5,450 ft1,660 m |
| Average of all land | 5,360 ft1,635 m |
| Nearest peak Bosque Peak, 3.5 mi east of the CDP boundary | 9,620 ft2,930 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,310 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.1 °F94.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.6 inHg (83.3 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 Valencia County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 4,573 2020 Census
- Land area
- 11.6 sq mi
- Density
- 393 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.8014° N, 106.5436° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 87031
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Meadow Lake5,310 ft
- El Cerro Mission5,060 ft
- Monterey Park5,050 ft
- Las Maravillas4,990 ft
- Los Lunas4,920 ft
- Isleta4,900 ft
- Chical4,890 ft
- Bosque Farms4,870 ft
- Peralta4,860 ft
- Valencia4,850 ft
- El Cerro4,840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico350th highest of 528
- Towns in Valencia County2nd highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sandia Crest10,670 ft
- Bosque Peak9,620 ft
- Ladron Peak9,186 ft
- South Mountain8,750 ft
- Mesa Gallina7,840 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, 5,040 ft at 34.8007° N, 106.6551° 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.
- Meadow Lake 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.