Ballard, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,410 ft 1,650 m5,300 ft 1,615 m5,240 ft 1,595 m5,120 ft 1,560 m5,010 ft 1,525 m4,950 ft 1,510 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
Ballard sits at about 5,060 ft (1,545 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,060 ft 1,545 m
most residents: 4,980–5,130 ft
Lowest
4,950 ft 1,510 m
on the south side
Highest
5,410 ft 1,650 m
on the north side
Average
5,060 ft 1,545 m
all land inside town limits
Ballard spans about 460 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 | 5,060 ft1,545 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 5,410 ft1,650 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 4,950 ft1,510 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ballard | 5,050 ft1,540 m |
| Airport (74V) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi west of the town limits | 5,176 ft1,578 m |
| Average of all land | 5,060 ft1,545 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,060 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.6 °F94.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.8 inHg (84.1 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.4% 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
- Town in Uintah County, Utah, United States
- Population
- 1,277 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.0 sq mi
- Density
- 92 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2894° N, 109.9432° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Roosevelt Municipal (74V) 5,176 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 84066
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Altamont6,380 ft
- Bluebell6,190 ft
- Whiterocks6,060 ft
- Neola6,040 ft
- Maeser5,570 ft
- Lapoint5,560 ft
- Roosevelt5,090 ft
- Myton5,080 ft
- Fort Duchesne5,080 ft
- Ballard5,060 ft
- Randlett4,830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Utah163rd highest of 334
- Towns in Uintah County8th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Kings Peak13,518 ft
- Gilbert Peak13,451 ft
- Mount Lena9,690 ft
- Little Mountain, Uintah County8,620 ft
- Split Mountain7,390 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.