Santa Rosa, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,830 ft 1,470 m4,760 ft 1,450 m4,720 ft 1,440 m4,640 ft 1,415 m4,570 ft 1,390 m4,530 ft 1,380 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Santa Rosa sits at about 4,620 ft (1,410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,620 ft 1,410 m
most residents: 4,580–4,750 ft
Lowest
4,530 ft 1,380 m
near the middle
Highest
4,830 ft 1,470 m
on the east side
Average
4,660 ft 1,420 m
all land inside city limits
Santa Rosa spans about 300 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 | 4,620 ft1,410 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 4,830 ft1,470 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 4,530 ft1,380 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Santa Rosa | 4,620 ft1,410 m |
| Airport (SXU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi east of the city limits | 4,792 ft1,461 m |
| Average of all land | 4,660 ft1,420 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,620 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.4 °F95.2 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.3 inHg (85.5 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.7% 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
- City in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 2,824 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 565 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.9387° N, 104.6825° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Pecos River → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Santa Rosa Route 66 (SXU) 4,792 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 88435
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Vaughn5,980 ft
- Tecolotito5,310 ft
- Anton Chico5,300 ft
- Pastura5,290 ft
- Llano del Medio5,240 ft
- Santa Rosa4,620 ft
- Newkirk4,570 ft
- Puerto de Luna4,500 ft
- Lake Sumner4,340 ft
- Conchas Dam4,230 ft
- Fort Sumner4,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico417th highest of 528
- Towns in Guadalupe County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mesita Cortada, Guadalupe County5,520 ft
- Mesita Contadero5,180 ft
- Sunshine Mesa5,020 ft
- Boot Hill4,830 ft
- Table Mountain, Guadalupe County4,800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²) (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts) and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,530 ft at 34.9329° N, 104.6851° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.