Nisqually Reservation, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
330 ft 100 m250 ft 75 m210 ft 65 m140 ft 45 m65 ft 20 m28 ft 9 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 reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Nisqually Reservation averages about 190 ft (60 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 28 ft on the northwest side to 330 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
190 ft 60 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
330 ft 100 m
on the south side
Lowest
28 ft 9 m
on the northwest side
Nisqually Reservation spans about 302 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 | 190 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the south side | 330 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the northwest side | 28 ft9 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.4 mi west to east through Nisqually Indian Community.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in Washington, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 639 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 81 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Muckleshoot Reservation360 ft
- Skokomish Reservation240 ft
- Nisqually Reservation190 ft
- Puyallup Reservation150 ft
- Chehalis Reservation95 ft
- Squaxin Island Reservation87 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Washington19th highest of 29
- Tribal lands in the United States494th highest of 704
The one town in the reservation
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands 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 reservation 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 reservation.
- 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); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.