Vaughn, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,050 ft 1,845 m6,000 ft 1,830 m5,970 ft 1,820 m5,920 ft 1,805 m5,880 ft 1,790 m5,850 ft 1,785 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
Vaughn sits at about 5,980 ft (1,825 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,980 ft 1,825 m
most residents: 5,970–6,010 ft
Lowest
5,850 ft 1,785 m
on the northeast side
Highest
6,050 ft 1,845 m
on the west side
Average
5,950 ft 1,815 m
all land inside town limits
Vaughn spans about 200 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 | 5,980 ft1,825 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 6,050 ft1,845 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 5,850 ft1,785 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vaughn | 5,980 ft1,820 m |
| Airport (N17) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 5,936 ft1,809 m |
| Average of all land | 5,950 ft1,815 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,980 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.9 °F93.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
80% of sea level
24.0 inHg (81.3 kPa): each breath holds 20% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.8% 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 Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 275 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.6 sq mi
- Density
- 49 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.6017° N, 105.2083° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Vaughn Municipal (N17) 5,936 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 88353
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Corona6,690 ft
- Duran6,230 ft
- Encino6,120 ft
- Vaughn5,980 ft
- Villanueva5,870 ft
- Tecolotito5,310 ft
- Anton Chico5,300 ft
- Pastura5,290 ft
- Llano del Medio5,240 ft
- Santa Rosa4,620 ft
- Puerto de Luna4,500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico256th highest of 528
- Towns in Guadalupe Countyhighest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gallinas Peak8,640 ft
- Cerro de la Lesna6,700 ft
- Mesa Leon6,340 ft
- Mesa Apodaca6,090 ft
- Gacho Hill5,780 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.