Fort Davis, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,510 ft 1,680 m5,330 ft 1,625 m5,240 ft 1,600 m5,070 ft 1,545 m4,890 ft 1,490 m4,810 ft 1,465 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
Fort Davis sits at about 4,890 ft (1,490 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,890 ft 1,490 m
most residents: 4,860–4,930 ft
Lowest
4,810 ft 1,465 m
on the northeast side
Highest
5,510 ft 1,680 m
on the west side
Average
4,960 ft 1,510 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fort Davis spans about 700 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 | 4,890 ft1,490 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 5,510 ft1,680 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 4,810 ft1,465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fort Davis | 4,900 ft1,490 m |
| Average of all land | 4,960 ft1,510 m |
| Nearest peak Blue Mountain, 5.2 mi west of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,311 ft2,228 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,890 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.9 °F95.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.0 inHg (84.7 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 1,024 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.8 sq mi
- Density
- 95 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.5882° N, 103.8946° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Limpia Creek → Pecos River → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 79734
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Davis4,890 ft
- Marfa4,700 ft
- Alpine4,490 ft
- Valentine4,420 ft
- Marathon4,070 ft
- Van Horn4,060 ft
- Balmorhea3,190 ft
- Fort Stockton2,980 ft
- Toyah2,910 ft
- Lindsay, Reeves County2,630 ft
- Town of Pecos2,590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texashighest of 1,861
- Towns in Jeff Davis Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Baldy Peak8,340 ft
- Black Mountain7,530 ft
- Blue Mountain7,311 ft
- Twin Mountains6,890 ft
- Star Mountain6,346 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.
- Fort Davis 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.