Tse Bonito, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,220 ft 2,200 m7,110 ft 2,165 m7,050 ft 2,150 m6,930 ft 2,115 m6,820 ft 2,075 m6,760 ft 2,060 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
Tse Bonito sits at about 6,870 ft (2,095 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,870 ft 2,095 m
most residents: 6,790–7,040 ft
Lowest
6,760 ft 2,060 m
near the middle
Highest
7,220 ft 2,200 m
on the east side
Average
6,970 ft 2,125 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tse Bonito spans about 460 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 | 6,870 ft2,095 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 7,220 ft2,200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 6,760 ft2,060 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tse Bonito | 6,860 ft2,090 m |
| Airport (RQE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi west of the CDP boundary | 6,742 ft2,055 m |
| Average of all land | 6,970 ft2,125 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,870 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
199.2 °F92.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
78% of sea level
23.2 inHg (78.6 kPa): each breath holds 22% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+14% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 380 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.8 sq mi
- Density
- 56 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6567° N, 109.0412° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Black Creek → Puerco River → Little Colorado River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Window Rock (RQE) 6,742 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 86515
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Black Hat7,020 ft
- Tse Bonito6,870 ft
- Fort Defiance, AZ6,830 ft
- St. Michaels, AZ6,800 ft
- Window Rock, AZ6,800 ft
- Yah-ta-hey6,640 ft
- Rock Springs6,620 ft
- Oak Springs, AZ6,570 ft
- Purty Rock6,420 ft
- Nakaibito6,410 ft
- Williams Acres6,390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico112th highest of 528
- Towns in McKinley County22nd highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Powell8,752 ft
- Hosta Butte8,624 ft
- Torrivio Mesa, McKinley County7,040 ft
- Corn Burned Hill6,860 ft
- Gossip Hill6,390 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).
- 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.
- Tse Bonito 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.