Katherine, AZ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,060 ft 325 m990 ft 300 m850 ft 260 m710 ft 215 m640 ft 195 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
Katherine sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 700–920 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
830 ft 255 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Katherine spans about 560 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Katherine | 700 ft210 m |
| Airport (IFP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi south of the CDP boundary | 707 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States
- Population
- 76 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2222° N, 114.5619° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Laughlin/bullhead International (IFP) 707 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 86429
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Golden Valley2,850 ft
- Oatman2,780 ft
- Cal-Nev-Ari, NV2,560 ft
- Katherine890 ft
- Laughlin, NV710 ft
- Fort Mohave590 ft
- Bullhead City560 ft
- Mesquite Creek550 ft
- Willow Valley480 ft
- Mojave Ranch Estates480 ft
- Mohave Valley470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arizona424th highest of 467
- Towns in Mohave County35th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hayden Peak8,360 ft
- Mount Tipton7,153 ft
- Cherum Peak6,988 ft
- Mount Perkins5,450 ft
- Mount Nutt5,218 ft
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).
- 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.
- Katherine 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.