Butte-Silver Bow, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,220 ft 3,115 m8,770 ft 2,675 m8,050 ft 2,455 m6,600 ft 2,010 m5,160 ft 1,570 m4,430 ft 1,350 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Butte-Silver Bow sits at about 5,530 ft (1,685 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,530 ft 1,685 m
most residents: 5,470–5,820 ft
Lowest
4,430 ft 1,350 m
on the southeast side
Highest
10,220 ft 3,115 m
on Table Mountain
Average
6,440 ft 1,965 m
all land inside city limits
Butte-Silver Bow spans about 5,790 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 | 5,530 ft1,685 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Table Mountain | 10,220 ft3,115 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 4,430 ft1,350 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Butte-Silver Bow | 5,820 ft1,775 m |
| Airport (BTM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 5,551 ft1,692 m |
| Average of all land | 6,440 ft1,965 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
27 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,530 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.7 °F94.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.4 inHg (82.7 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
- Consolidated city and county in Montana, United States
- Population
- 35,480 2024 est.
- Land area
- 715.8 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 50 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.9020° N, 112.6571° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Clark Fork → Pend Oreille River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Bert Mooney (BTM) 5,551 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 59701 59711 59727 59743 59748 59750 59759
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Walkerville6,180 ft
- Wise River5,670 ft
- Butte-Silver Bow5,530 ft
- Dewey5,510 ft
- Rader Creek5,360 ft
- Anaconda-Deer Lodge County5,300 ft
- Glen4,990 ft
- Racetrack4,680 ft
- Twin Bridges4,630 ft
- Silver Star4,550 ft
- Whitehall4,360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montana26th highest of 497
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Table Mountain10,220 ft
- Mount Fleecer9,440 ft
- Granulated Mountain9,161 ft
- McCartney Mountain8,368 ft
- Mount Humbug8,250 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.