Carpenter, WY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,460 ft 1,665 m5,450 ft 1,660 m5,450 ft 1,660 m5,440 ft 1,660 m5,430 ft 1,655 m5,430 ft 1,655 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
Carpenter sits at about 5,440 ft (1,655 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,440 ft 1,655 m
most residents: 5,430–5,440 ft
Lowest
5,430 ft 1,655 m
on the southeast side
Highest
5,450 ft 1,660 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,440 ft 1,655 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Carpenter is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 5,440 ft1,655 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 5,450 ft1,660 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 5,430 ft1,655 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carpenter | 5,440 ft1,655 m |
| Average of all land | 5,440 ft1,655 m |
Altitude Effects
What 5,440 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.9 °F94.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.5 inHg (82.9 kPa): each breath holds 18% 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 Laramie County, Wyoming, United States
- Population
- 93 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 391 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0455° N, 104.3666° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Crow Creek → South Platte River → Middle Channel Platte River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 82054
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Warren AFB6,160 ft
- Ranchettes6,160 ft
- Cheyenne6,080 ft
- South Greeley6,040 ft
- Fox Farm-College6,000 ft
- Hillsdale5,670 ft
- Burns5,510 ft
- Carpenter5,440 ft
- Grover, CO5,080 ft
- Pine Bluffs5,060 ft
- Bushnell, NE4,880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wyoming110th highest of 205
- Towns in Laramie County8th highest of 10
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.
- Carpenter 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. All public domain.