Grand County, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,320 ft 3,755 m10,220 ft 3,115 m9,170 ft 2,795 m7,080 ft 2,155 m4,980 ft 1,520 m3,930 ft 1,200 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
Grand County averages about 5,770 ft (1,760 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,930 ft on the south side to 12,316 ft on Mount Waas.
Average elevation
5,770 ft 1,760 m
all land inside the county
Highest
12,316 ft 3,754 m
on Mount Waas
Lowest
3,930 ft 1,200 m
on the south side
Grand County spans about 8,390 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 | 5,770 ft1,760 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Waas (NGS survey height) | 12,316 ft3,754 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 3,930 ft1,200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
53 mi west to east through Moab.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Utah, United States
- Population
- 9,788 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,672.9 sq mi + 11.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.7 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
- Garfield County, CO7,910 ft
- Carbon County7,180 ft
- Mesa County, CO6,870 ft
- Uintah County6,250 ft
- Emery County5,870 ft
- Grand County5,770 ft
- San Juan County5,700 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Utah20th highest of 29
- Counties in the United States125th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Waas12,316 ft
- Manns Peak12,250 ft
- Wagon Road Ridge9,500 ft
- Sevenmile Mesa7,180 ft
- Parriott Mesa6,140 ft
All 3 towns in Grand County by typical elevation
- Thompson Springs5,100 ft
- Castle Valley4,790 ft
- Moab4,040 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.