Vado, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,920 ft 1,195 m3,900 ft 1,190 m3,880 ft 1,185 m3,860 ft 1,175 m3,830 ft 1,170 m3,820 ft 1,165 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
Vado sits at about 3,830 ft (1,165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,830 ft 1,165 m
most residents: 3,820–3,860 ft
Lowest
3,820 ft 1,165 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,920 ft 1,195 m
on the northeast side
Average
3,840 ft 1,170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Vado spans about 100 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 | 3,830 ft1,165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 3,920 ft1,195 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 3,820 ft1,165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vado | 3,820 ft1,165 m |
| Average of all land | 3,840 ft1,170 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,830 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.9 °F96.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
26.0 inHg (88.1 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 2,930 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 984 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.1118° N, 106.6625° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 88048 88072
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- San Pablo3,880 ft
- Berino3,840 ft
- Mesquite3,840 ft
- San Miguel3,840 ft
- Anthony, TX3,830 ft
- La Mesa3,830 ft
- Vinton, TX3,830 ft
- Vado3,830 ft
- Anthony3,820 ft
- Chamberino3,810 ft
- La Union3,790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico500th highest of 528
- Towns in Doña Ana County24th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Organ Peak8,850 ft
- Bennett Mountain7,200 ft
- Mount Riley5,907 ft
- Robledo Mountain5,870 ft
- Doña Ana Peak5,822 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.
- Vado 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.