Vanderwagen, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,210 ft 2,195 m7,160 ft 2,180 m7,140 ft 2,175 m7,090 ft 2,160 m7,040 ft 2,145 m7,020 ft 2,140 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Vanderwagen sits at about 7,120 ft (2,170 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
7,120 ft 2,170 m
few residents
Lowest
7,020 ft 2,140 m
on the west side
Highest
7,210 ft 2,195 m
on the southeast side
Average
7,120 ft 2,170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Vanderwagen spans about 190 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 7,120 ft2,170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 7,210 ft2,195 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 7,020 ft2,140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vanderwagen | 7,150 ft2,180 m |
| Average of all land | 7,120 ft2,170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 7,120 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
198.7 °F92.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
77% of sea level
23.0 inHg (77.8 kPa): each breath holds 23% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.1% 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
- 48 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2739° N, 108.7548° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Puerco River → Little Colorado River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 87326
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McGaffey7,810 ft
- Pinehaven7,380 ft
- Sagar7,240 ft
- Vanderwagen7,120 ft
- Timberlake7,120 ft
- Catalpa Canyon6,770 ft
- Crestview6,540 ft
- Black Rock6,440 ft
- Purty Rock6,420 ft
- Williams Acres6,390 ft
- Zuni Pueblo6,290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico71st highest of 528
- Towns in McKinley County9th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Powell8,752 ft
- Hosta Butte8,624 ft
- Red Mesa, McKinley County7,610 ft
- Dubois Hill7,090 ft
- Mexican Hill6,980 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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, 7,010 ft at 35.2707° N, 108.7690° 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.
- Vanderwagen 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.