Thunder Mountain, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,090 ft 2,160 m6,960 ft 2,120 m6,900 ft 2,100 m6,770 ft 2,065 m6,640 ft 2,025 m6,570 ft 2,005 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
Thunder Mountain sits at about 6,700 ft (2,040 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,700 ft 2,040 m
most residents: 6,590–6,890 ft
Lowest
6,570 ft 2,005 m
on the east side
Highest
7,090 ft 2,160 m
on the north side
Average
6,750 ft 2,060 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Thunder Mountain spans about 520 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 | 6,700 ft2,040 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 7,090 ft2,160 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 6,570 ft2,005 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thunder Mountain | 6,650 ft2,025 m |
| Airport (1N1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi east of the CDP boundary | 6,565 ft2,001 m |
| Average of all land | 6,750 ft2,060 m |
| Nearest peak South Mountain, 4.0 mi north of the CDP boundary | 8,750 ft2,665 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,700 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
199.5 °F93.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
78% of sea level
23.4 inHg (79.1 kPa): each breath holds 22% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 1,171 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.4 sq mi
- Density
- 265 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0849° N, 106.2290° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Laguna del Perro basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Sandia Airpark Estates East (1N1) 6,565 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 87015
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cedro7,280 ft
- Sedillo7,080 ft
- Manzano Springs7,020 ft
- San Antonito6,980 ft
- Barton6,840 ft
- Cedar Crest6,810 ft
- Cedar Grove6,800 ft
- Sandia Knolls6,760 ft
- Thunder Mountain6,700 ft
- Edgewood6,590 ft
- Tijeras6,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico138th highest of 528
- Towns in Santa Fe County22nd highest of 52
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sandia Crest10,670 ft
- Thompson Peak10,557 ft
- Bosque Peak9,620 ft
- Placer Mountain8,900 ft
- South Mountain8,750 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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, 6,570 ft at 35.0929° N, 106.2096° 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.
- Thunder Mountain 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.