Baggs, WY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,300 ft 1,920 m6,280 ft 1,915 m6,270 ft 1,910 m6,260 ft 1,905 m6,240 ft 1,900 m6,230 ft 1,900 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Baggs sits at about 6,250 ft (1,905 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,250 ft 1,905 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
6,230 ft 1,900 m
on the west side
Highest
6,300 ft 1,920 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
6,250 ft 1,905 m
all land inside town limits
Baggs spans about 70 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 | 6,250 ft1,905 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 6,300 ft1,920 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 6,230 ft1,900 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Baggs | 6,250 ft1,905 m |
| Airport (DWX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi east of the town limits | 6,549 ft1,996 m |
| Average of all land | 6,250 ft1,905 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,250 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.4 °F93.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.8 inHg (80.4 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States
- Population
- 407 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 806 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0358° N, 107.6576° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Wyoming Basin
- Drains to
- Little Snake River → Yampa River → Green River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Dixon (DWX) 6,549 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 82321
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Encampment7,310 ft
- Riverside7,150 ft
- Saratoga6,820 ft
- Table Rock6,800 ft
- Rawlins6,770 ft
- Wamsutter6,720 ft
- Hayden, CO6,380 ft
- Dixon6,360 ft
- Baggs6,250 ft
- Craig, CO6,230 ft
- Maybell, CO5,920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wyoming69th highest of 205
- Towns in Carbon Countylowest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Mountain, Moffat County10,840 ft
- Bakers Peak9,410 ft
- Long Mountain9,278 ft
- Battle Mountain9,112 ft
- North Flat Top7,860 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.