Middle Mesa, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,870 ft 2,095 m6,680 ft 2,035 m6,580 ft 2,005 m6,390 ft 1,950 m6,200 ft 1,890 m6,100 ft 1,860 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
Middle Mesa sits at about 6,520 ft (1,990 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,520 ft 1,990 m
most residents: 6,180–6,620 ft
Lowest
6,100 ft 1,860 m
on the northeast side
Highest
6,870 ft 2,095 m
on the southwest side
Average
6,490 ft 1,980 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Middle Mesa spans about 770 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 | 6,520 ft1,990 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 6,870 ft2,095 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 6,100 ft1,860 m |
| Average of all land | 6,490 ft1,980 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.8 mi west to east through the middle of Middle Mesa.
Altitude Effects
What 6,520 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
199.9 °F93.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.5 inHg (79.6 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% 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
- 200 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9912° N, 107.4955° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- San Juan River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bayfield, CO6,980 ft
- Southern Ute, CO6,560 ft
- Middle Mesa6,520 ft
- Ignacio, CO6,460 ft
- La Boca6,300 ft
- Arboles, CO6,240 ft
- Cedar Hill5,950 ft
- Center Point5,740 ft
- Navajo Dam5,730 ft
- Turley5,610 ft
- Blanco5,610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico173rd highest of 528
- Towns in San Juan County3rd highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grouse Mesa11,410 ft
- Chromo Mountain9,890 ft
- Gallina Peak8,981 ft
- Pounds Mesa8,350 ft
- Burnt Mesa, San Juan County6,830 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).
- 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.
- Middle Mesa 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.