Springer, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,980 ft 1,825 m5,930 ft 1,805 m5,900 ft 1,800 m5,850 ft 1,785 m5,800 ft 1,770 m5,770 ft 1,760 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Springer sits at about 5,860 ft (1,785 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,860 ft 1,785 m
most residents: 5,800–5,910 ft
Lowest
5,770 ft 1,760 m
near the middle
Highest
5,980 ft 1,825 m
on the north side
Average
5,860 ft 1,785 m
all land inside town limits
Springer spans about 210 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 | 5,860 ft1,785 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 5,980 ft1,825 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 5,770 ft1,760 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Springer | 5,800 ft1,770 m |
| Airport (S42) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 5,894 ft1,796 m |
| Average of all land | 5,860 ft1,785 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,860 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.1 °F93.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.1 inHg (81.6 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+12% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 929 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 422 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.3611° N, 104.5953° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Canadian River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Springer Municipal (S42) 5,894 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 87747
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Angel Fire8,620 ft
- Eagle Nest8,250 ft
- Ute Park7,400 ft
- Capulin6,840 ft
- Raton6,670 ft
- Cimarron6,450 ft
- Watrous6,420 ft
- Wagon Mound6,220 ft
- Maxwell5,930 ft
- Roy5,890 ft
- Springer5,860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico276th highest of 528
- Towns in Colfax Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Baldy Mountain12,430 ft
- Mount Phillips11,742 ft
- Agua Fria Peak11,050 ft
- Cerro Pelon8,894 ft
- Laughlin Peak8,824 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (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.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.