Mora County, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,110 ft 3,995 m11,000 ft 3,355 m9,950 ft 3,030 m7,840 ft 2,390 m5,730 ft 1,745 m4,680 ft 1,425 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mora County averages about 7,190 ft (2,195 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,680 ft on the southeast side to 13,108 ft on Truchas Peak.
Average elevation
7,190 ft 2,195 m
all land inside the county
Highest
13,108 ft 3,995 m
on Truchas Peak
Lowest
4,680 ft 1,425 m
on the southeast side
Mora County spans about 8,430 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 | 7,190 ft2,195 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Truchas Peak (NGS survey height) | 13,108 ft3,995 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 4,680 ft1,425 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
77 mi west to east through Mora.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 4,096 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,926.3 sq mi + 2.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 76%, Southern Rocky Mountains 24%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Taos County8,500 ft
- Rio Arriba County7,670 ft
- Colfax County7,250 ft
- Mora County7,190 ft
- Santa Fe County6,880 ft
- San Miguel County5,950 ft
- Harding County5,040 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Mexico6th highest of 33
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Truchas Peak13,108 ft
- North Truchas Peak13,020 ft
- East Pecos Baldy12,530 ft
- Pecos Baldy12,505 ft
- Cerro Pelon8,894 ft
All 3 towns in Mora County by typical elevation
- Mora7,270 ft
- Watrous6,420 ft
- Wagon Mound6,220 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.