Lapoint, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,620 ft 1,710 m5,590 ft 1,705 m5,570 ft 1,700 m5,540 ft 1,690 m5,510 ft 1,680 m5,500 ft 1,675 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lapoint sits at about 5,560 ft (1,695 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,560 ft 1,695 m
most residents: 5,540–5,590 ft
Lowest
5,500 ft 1,675 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,620 ft 1,710 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
5,560 ft 1,695 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lapoint spans about 120 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 | 5,560 ft1,695 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 5,620 ft1,710 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 5,500 ft1,675 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lapoint | 5,570 ft1,695 m |
| Airport (VEL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 15 mi east of the CDP boundary | 5,274 ft1,608 m |
| Average of all land | 5,560 ft1,695 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,560 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.7 °F94.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
81% of sea level
24.4 inHg (82.6 kPa): each breath holds 19% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.1% 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
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Uintah County, Utah, United States
- Population
- 170 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 259 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4038° N, 109.7935° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Vernal Regional (VEL) 5,274 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 84039
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Whiterocks6,060 ft
- Neola6,040 ft
- Maeser5,570 ft
- Lapoint5,560 ft
- Vernal5,350 ft
- Naples5,230 ft
- Roosevelt5,090 ft
- Myton5,080 ft
- Fort Duchesne5,080 ft
- Ballard5,060 ft
- Randlett4,830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Utah109th highest of 334
- Towns in Uintah County3rd highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Lena9,690 ft
- Little Mountain, Uintah County8,620 ft
- Jessen Butte8,580 ft
- Bare Top Mountain7,710 ft
- Split Mountain7,390 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Lapoint is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.