Pastura, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,300 ft 1,615 m5,300 ft 1,615 m5,290 ft 1,615 m5,280 ft 1,610 m5,270 ft 1,610 m5,270 ft 1,605 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
Pastura sits at about 5,290 ft (1,610 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
5,290 ft 1,610 m
few residents
Lowest
5,270 ft 1,605 m
on the east side
Highest
5,300 ft 1,615 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,290 ft 1,610 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pastura spans about 30 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 5,290 ft1,610 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 5,300 ft1,615 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 5,270 ft1,605 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pastura | 5,290 ft1,610 m |
| Average of all land | 5,290 ft1,610 m |
Altitude Effects
What 5,290 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.2 °F94.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.6 inHg (83.4 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 Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 17 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 49 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.7828° N, 104.9447° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Pecos River → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 88435
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Duran6,230 ft
- Encino6,120 ft
- Vaughn5,980 ft
- Villanueva5,870 ft
- Tecolotito5,310 ft
- Anton Chico5,300 ft
- Pastura5,290 ft
- Llano del Medio5,240 ft
- Santa Rosa4,620 ft
- Puerto de Luna4,500 ft
- Lake Sumner4,340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico354th highest of 528
- Towns in Guadalupe County3rd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gallinas Peak8,640 ft
- Mesa Leon6,340 ft
- Argonne Mesa6,010 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Pastura 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.