East Carbon, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,290 ft 2,220 m6,860 ft 2,090 m6,640 ft 2,025 m6,220 ft 1,895 m5,790 ft 1,765 m5,570 ft 1,700 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
East Carbon sits at about 6,300 ft (1,920 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,300 ft 1,920 m
most residents: 6,190–6,590 ft
Lowest
5,570 ft 1,700 m
on the southwest side
Highest
7,290 ft 2,220 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
6,110 ft 1,865 m
all land inside city limits
East Carbon spans about 1,720 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 | 6,300 ft1,920 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 7,290 ft2,220 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 5,570 ft1,700 m |
| Average of all land | 6,110 ft1,865 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the middle of East Carbon.
Altitude Effects
What 6,300 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.3 °F93.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.7 inHg (80.3 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Carbon County, Utah, United States
- Population
- 1,566 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.3 sq mi
- Density
- 139 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5443° N, 110.4101° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 2
- 84520 84539
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kenilworth6,530 ft
- East Carbon6,300 ft
- Helper5,910 ft
- Huntington5,790 ft
- Spring Glen5,780 ft
- Cleveland5,730 ft
- Elmo5,700 ft
- West Wood5,630 ft
- Price5,610 ft
- Carbonville5,610 ft
- Wellington5,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Utah48th highest of 334
- Towns in Carbon County4th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Indian Head9,966 ft
- Ford Ridge9,806 ft
- Cedar Mountain, Emery County7,668 ft
- Flattop Mountain7,143 ft
- Elliott Mesa6,990 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.