Elmo, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,740 ft 1,750 m5,710 ft 1,740 m5,700 ft 1,740 m5,680 ft 1,730 m5,660 ft 1,725 m5,640 ft 1,720 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Elmo sits at about 5,700 ft (1,740 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,700 ft 1,740 m
most residents: 5,670–5,720 ft
Lowest
5,640 ft 1,720 m
on the south side
Highest
5,740 ft 1,750 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,690 ft 1,735 m
all land inside town limits
Elmo spans about 100 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 | 5,700 ft1,740 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 5,740 ft1,750 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 5,640 ft1,720 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elmo | 5,690 ft1,735 m |
| Airport (69V) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi west of the town limits | 5,915 ft1,803 m |
| Average of all land | 5,690 ft1,735 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,700 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.4 °F94.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.3 inHg (82.1 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.0% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+11% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Emery County, Utah, United States
- Population
- 423 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 600 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3897° N, 110.8152° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Price River → Green River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Huntington Municipal (69V) 5,915 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 84521
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Helper5,910 ft
- Huntington5,790 ft
- Orangeville5,790 ft
- Spring Glen5,780 ft
- Castle Dale5,770 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 Utah90th highest of 334
- Towns in Emery County8th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- East Mountain10,740 ft
- Monument Peak10,450 ft
- Candland Mountain10,360 ft
- Cedar Mountain, Emery County7,668 ft
- Flattop Mountain7,143 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.