Albany County, WY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,020 ft 3,660 m10,300 ft 3,140 m9,450 ft 2,880 m7,730 ft 2,355 m6,020 ft 1,835 m5,160 ft 1,575 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
Albany County averages about 7,460 ft (2,275 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,160 ft on the northeast side to 12,016 ft on Medicine Bow Peak.
Average elevation
7,460 ft 2,275 m
all land inside the county
Highest
12,016 ft 3,662 m
on Medicine Bow Peak
Lowest
5,160 ft 1,575 m
on the northeast side
Albany County spans about 6,860 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 | 7,460 ft2,275 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Medicine Bow Peak (NGS survey height) | 12,016 ft3,662 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 5,160 ft1,575 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
54 mi west to east through Laramie.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wyoming, United States
- Population
- 39,288 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,274.2 sq mi + 34.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.2 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Southern Rocky Mountains 52%, Wyoming Basin 47%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 92%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Jackson County, CO8,900 ft
- Larimer County, CO7,790 ft
- Albany County7,460 ft
- Carbon County7,300 ft
- Laramie County5,990 ft
- Converse County5,430 ft
- Platte County5,170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wyoming4th highest of 23
- Counties in the United States47th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Medicine Bow Peak12,016 ft
- Laramie Peak10,210 ft
- Jelm Mountain9,664 ft
- Eagle Mountain9,130 ft
- Resse Mountain8,140 ft
All 6 towns in Albany County by typical elevation
- Fox Park9,070 ft
- Albany8,630 ft
- Centennial8,290 ft
- Woods Landing-Jelm7,480 ft
- Laramie7,190 ft
- Rock River6,900 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 5,160 ft at 41.9976° N, 105.2732° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.