Keaau, HI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
740 ft 225 m600 ft 185 m540 ft 165 m400 ft 125 m270 ft 80 m200 ft 60 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
Keaau sits at about 300 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
300 ft 90 m
most residents: 260–490 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the north side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Keaau spans about 540 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 | 300 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Keaau | 320 ft100 m |
| Airport (ITO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi north of the CDP boundary | 38 ft12 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States
- Population
- 1,195 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.3 sq mi
- Density
- 189 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 19.6227° N, 155.0374° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Hilo International (ITO) 38 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96749
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mountain View1,740 ft
- Fern Acres1,460 ft
- Hawaiian Acres1,000 ft
- Ainaloa710 ft
- Tiki Gardens670 ft
- Kurtistown640 ft
- Orchidlands Estates490 ft
- Keaau300 ft
- Hilo280 ft
- Wainaku260 ft
- Hawaiian Paradise Park220 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Hawaii74th highest of 163
- Towns in Hawaii County43rd highest of 54
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mauna Kea13,803 ft
- Mauna Loa13,670 ft
- Hualālai8,260 ft
- Kaumu o Kaleihoohie5,490 ft
- Kalele100 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: 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.
- Keaau is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; 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.