Midway, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,610 ft 1,100 m3,590 ft 1,095 m3,580 ft 1,090 m3,570 ft 1,090 m3,550 ft 1,085 m3,550 ft 1,080 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Midway sits at about 3,570 ft (1,090 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,570 ft 1,090 m
most residents: 3,560–3,580 ft
Lowest
3,550 ft 1,080 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,610 ft 1,100 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,570 ft 1,090 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Midway spans about 60 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 | 3,570 ft1,090 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 3,610 ft1,100 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 3,550 ft1,080 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Midway | 3,570 ft1,090 m |
| Airport (ROW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi west of the CDP boundary | 3,671 ft1,119 m |
| Average of all land | 3,570 ft1,090 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,570 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.4 °F96.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.3 inHg (88.9 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 818 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Density
- 329 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.2948° N, 104.4505° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Pecos River → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Roswell Air Center (ROW) 3,671 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 88230
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hope4,080 ft
- Loco Hills3,640 ft
- Roswell3,610 ft
- Midway3,570 ft
- Dexter3,460 ft
- Hagerman3,420 ft
- Artesia3,400 ft
- Atoka3,390 ft
- Lake Arthur3,380 ft
- Morningside3,370 ft
- La Huerta3,120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico514th highest of 528
- Towns in Chaves County2nd highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Comanche Hill3,760 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.
- Midway 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. All public domain.