Arvada, WY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,940 ft 1,200 m3,860 ft 1,175 m3,820 ft 1,165 m3,730 ft 1,140 m3,650 ft 1,115 m3,610 ft 1,100 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Arvada sits at about 3,760 ft (1,145 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,760 ft 1,145 m
few residents
Lowest
3,610 ft 1,100 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,940 ft 1,200 m
on the northwest side
Average
3,750 ft 1,145 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Arvada spans about 330 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 3,760 ft1,145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 3,940 ft1,200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 3,610 ft1,100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Arvada | 3,670 ft1,120 m |
| Average of all land | 3,750 ft1,145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,760 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.0 °F96.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
26.1 inHg (88.3 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sheridan County, Wyoming, United States
- Population
- 33 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6536° N, 106.1311° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Powder River → Yellowstone River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 82831
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Story5,120 ft
- Buffalo4,680 ft
- Sleepy Hollow4,590 ft
- Gillette4,560 ft
- Big Horn4,090 ft
- Powder Horn4,020 ft
- Clearmont3,910 ft
- Sheridan3,820 ft
- Ranchester3,770 ft
- Arvada3,760 ft
- Biddle, MT3,390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wyoming203rd highest of 205
- Towns in Sheridan Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cloud Peak13,167 ft
- Mather Peaks12,340 ft
- Foster Buttes4,500 ft
- Tincom Butte4,200 ft
- L Quarter Circle Hills4,000 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Arvada 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.