Kalawao County, HI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,990 ft 1,215 m3,000 ft 915 m2,500 ft 760 m1,500 ft 455 m500 ft 150 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kalawao County averages about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Pacific Ocean to 3,990 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,210 ft 370 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,990 ft 1,215 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Pacific Ocean
Kalawao County spans about 3,990 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 | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 3,990 ft1,215 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Pacific Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.8 mi south to north through the middle of Kalawao County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Hawaii, United States
- Population
- 81 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.0 sq mi + 40.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Maui County1,770 ft
- Kalawao County1,210 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Hawaii3rd highest of 5
- Counties in the United States1,101st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Puʻuʻuao410 ft
- Kiʻikolu111 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −3 ft at 21.1821° N, 156.9246° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties 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 county 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).
- 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: local mean sea level (Hawaii has no national vertical datum). NGS plans to replace local mean sea level 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, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.