Playas, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,580 ft 1,395 m4,540 ft 1,385 m4,520 ft 1,375 m4,470 ft 1,365 m4,430 ft 1,350 m4,410 ft 1,345 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
Playas sits at about 4,480 ft (1,365 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
4,480 ft 1,365 m
few residents
Lowest
4,410 ft 1,345 m
on the southwest side
Highest
4,580 ft 1,395 m
at the foot of the Coyote Hills
Average
4,490 ft 1,365 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Playas spans about 170 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 | 4,480 ft1,365 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Coyote Hills | 4,580 ft1,395 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 4,410 ft1,345 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Playas | 4,500 ft1,370 m |
| Average of all land | 4,490 ft1,365 m |
| Nearest peak Hachita Peak, 6.1 mi southeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 6,637 ft2,023 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,480 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.7 °F95.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
85% of sea level
25.4 inHg (85.9 kPa): each breath holds 15% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.8% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 25 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.9168° N, 108.5337° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 88009
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White Signal6,060 ft
- Hachita4,520 ft
- Playas4,480 ft
- Animas4,400 ft
- Windmill4,360 ft
- Lordsburg4,270 ft
- Sunshine4,260 ft
- Cotton City4,240 ft
- Glen Acres4,190 ft
- Rodeo4,130 ft
- San Simon, AZ3,610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico431st highest of 528
- Towns in Hidalgo Countyhighest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Hatchet Peak8,350 ft
- Gillespie Mountain7,300 ft
- Grey Mountain6,931 ft
- Hachita Peak6,637 ft
- Rimrock Mountain5,770 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.
- Playas 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.