Carbon County, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,450 ft 3,185 m8,930 ft 2,725 m8,180 ft 2,490 m6,660 ft 2,030 m5,140 ft 1,570 m4,380 ft 1,335 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carbon County averages about 7,180 ft (2,185 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,380 ft on the east side to 10,450 ft on Monument Peak.
Average elevation
7,180 ft 2,185 m
all land inside the county
Highest
10,450 ft 3,185 m
on Monument Peak
Lowest
4,380 ft 1,335 m
on the east side
Carbon County spans about 6,070 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 7,180 ft2,185 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Monument Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 10,450 ft3,185 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 4,380 ft1,335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
60 mi west to east through Price.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Utah, United States
- Population
- 20,613 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,479.3 sq mi + 6.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Duchesne County7,770 ft
- Sanpete County7,330 ft
- Carbon County7,180 ft
- Utah County6,390 ft
- Uintah County6,250 ft
- Emery County5,870 ft
- Grand County5,770 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Utah8th highest of 29
- Counties in the United States58th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Bartles9,940 ft
- Star Point9,920 ft
- Patmos Head9,845 ft
- Range Valley Mountain9,840 ft
- Ford Ridge9,806 ft
All 10 towns in Carbon County by typical elevation
- Clear Creek8,390 ft
- Scofield7,760 ft
- Kenilworth6,530 ft
- East Carbon6,300 ft
- Helper5,910 ft
- Spring Glen5,780 ft
- West Wood5,630 ft
- Price5,610 ft
- Carbonville5,610 ft
- Wellington5,400 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.