Garfield County, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,510 ft 3,510 m9,540 ft 2,910 m8,550 ft 2,605 m6,580 ft 2,005 m4,600 ft 1,400 m3,610 ft 1,100 m
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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
Garfield County averages about 6,820 ft (2,080 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,610 ft on the east side to 11,510 ft on Mount Ellen Peak.
Average elevation
6,820 ft 2,080 m
all land inside the county
Highest
11,510 ft 3,510 m
on Mount Ellen Peak
Lowest
3,610 ft 1,100 m
on the east side
Garfield County spans about 7,900 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 | 6,820 ft2,080 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Ellen Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 11,510 ft3,510 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,610 ft1,100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
117 mi west to east through Panguitch.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Utah, United States
- Population
- 5,290 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5,179.6 sq mi + 29.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.0 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of California 63%, Sevier Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 38%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Piute County7,830 ft
- Garfield County6,820 ft
- Beaver County6,370 ft
- Iron County6,360 ft
- Wayne County6,110 ft
- Kane County5,820 ft
- San Juan County5,700 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Utah10th highest of 29
- Counties in the United States75th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Ellen Peak11,510 ft
- Mount Pennell11,413 ft
- Mount Dutton11,040 ft
- Griffin Top10,790 ft
- Mount Hillers10,710 ft
All 9 towns in Garfield County by typical elevation
- Bryce Canyon City7,670 ft
- Hatch6,910 ft
- Panguitch6,620 ft
- Boulder6,560 ft
- Antimony6,530 ft
- Tropic6,350 ft
- Henrieville5,980 ft
- Cannonville5,890 ft
- Escalante5,820 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; 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, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.