San Miguel County, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,670 ft 3,555 m9,700 ft 2,955 m8,710 ft 2,655 m6,740 ft 2,055 m4,770 ft 1,455 m3,790 ft 1,155 m
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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
San Miguel County averages about 5,950 ft (1,815 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,790 ft on the east side to 11,665 ft on Elk Mountain.
Average elevation
5,950 ft 1,815 m
all land inside the county
Highest
11,665 ft 3,556 m
on Elk Mountain
Lowest
3,790 ft 1,155 m
on the east side
San Miguel County spans about 7,880 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 | 5,950 ft1,815 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Elk Mountain (NGS survey height) | 11,665 ft3,556 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,790 ft1,155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
106 mi west to east through Las Vegas.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 26,428 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,721.5 sq mi + 19.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 77%, Southern Rocky Mountains 17%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Mora County7,190 ft
- Santa Fe County6,880 ft
- Torrance County6,460 ft
- San Miguel County5,950 ft
- Guadalupe County5,200 ft
- Harding County5,040 ft
- Quay County4,330 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Mexico14th highest of 33
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Elk Mountain, San Miguel County11,665 ft
- Mount Barker11,430 ft
- Spring Mountain, San Miguel County11,180 ft
- Rosilla Peak10,641 ft
- Hermit Peak10,267 ft
All 14 towns in San Miguel County by typical elevation
- East Pecos7,140 ft
- Pecos6,970 ft
- Rowe6,820 ft
- North San Ysidro6,750 ft
- Las Vegas6,490 ft
- Tecolote6,340 ft
- Soham6,240 ft
- San Jose, San Miguel County6,120 ft
- Pueblo6,070 ft
- Ribera6,070 ft
- Sena5,890 ft
- Villanueva5,870 ft
- Tecolotito5,310 ft
- Conchas Dam4,230 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.