Carbon County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,620 ft 3,845 m10,280 ft 3,135 m9,120 ft 2,780 m6,780 ft 2,065 m4,450 ft 1,355 m3,280 ft 1,000 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carbon County averages about 5,560 ft (1,695 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,280 ft on the north side to 12,618 ft on Castle Mountain.
Average elevation
5,560 ft 1,695 m
all land inside the county
Highest
12,618 ft 3,846 m
on Castle Mountain
Lowest
3,280 ft 1,000 m
on the north side
Carbon County spans about 9,340 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 | 5,560 ft1,695 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Castle Mountain (NGS survey height) | 12,618 ft3,846 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 3,280 ft1,000 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
76 mi west to east through Red Lodge.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 11,498 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,047.9 sq mi + 13.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Middle Rocky Mountains 84%, Great Plains 16%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Park County, WY7,520 ft
- Park County6,970 ft
- Carbon County5,560 ft
- Big Horn County, WY5,410 ft
- Stillwater County5,070 ft
- Big Horn County3,980 ft
- Yellowstone County3,490 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana11th highest of 54
- Counties in the United States139th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Castle Mountain12,618 ft
- Whitetail Peak12,510 ft
- Silver Run Peak12,510 ft
- Spirit Mountain12,290 ft
- Mount Rearguard12,210 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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).
- 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 county.
- 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, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.