Palmer, PR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
170 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m79 ft 24 m44 ft 13 m26 ft 8 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 Census boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Palmer sits at about 45 ft (14 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
45 ft 14 m
most residents: 32–81 ft
Lowest
26 ft 8 m
on the east side
Highest
170 ft 50 m
at the foot of the Sierra de Luquillo
Average
60 ft 18 m
all land inside the Census boundary
Palmer spans about 144 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 | 45 ft14 m |
| Highest point Inside the Census boundary, at the foot of the Sierra de Luquillo | 170 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside the Census boundary, on the east side | 26 ft8 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Palmer | 49 ft15 m |
| Airport (RVR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southeast of the Census boundary | 39 ft12 m |
| Average of all land | 60 ft18 m |
| Nearest peak El Toro, 7.4 mi southwest of the Census boundary | 3,480 ft1,060 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Community (census-designated) in Río Grande Municipio, Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 987 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 4,862 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 18.3705° N, 65.7741° W
- Time zone
- Atlantic UTC−4, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Jose Aponte de la Torre (RVR) 39 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 00745
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Palma Sola1,040 ft
- Cambalache330 ft
- Bartolo170 ft
- Ramos140 ft
- Hato Candal110 ft
- La Dolores51 ft
- Playa Fortuna45 ft
- Palmer45 ft
- San Isidro32 ft
- Suárez8 ft
- Vieques6 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Puerto Rico169th highest of 214
- Towns in Río Grande Municipiolowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monte Jayuya4,310 ft
- El Toro3,480 ft
- Roca El Yunque3,460 ft
- Cerro El Faro471 ft
- Cerro Bravo320 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the Census 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 Census 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).
- 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: Puerto Rico Vertical Datum of 2002 (PRVD02). NGS plans to replace PRVD02 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Palmer is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; 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.