Garfield County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,670 ft 1,120 m3,310 ft 1,010 m3,130 ft 955 m2,760 ft 840 m2,400 ft 730 m2,220 ft 675 m
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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
Garfield County averages about 2,820 ft (860 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,220 ft on the northeast side to 3,670 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
2,820 ft 860 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,670 ft 1,120 m
on the south side
Lowest
2,220 ft 675 m
on the northeast side
Garfield County spans about 1,450 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 | 2,820 ft860 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 3,670 ft1,120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,220 ft675 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
56 mi south to north through Jordan.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 1,181 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,676.6 sq mi + 172.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.3 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Rosebud County3,100 ft
- Petroleum County2,960 ft
- Custer County2,830 ft
- Garfield County2,820 ft
- Prairie County2,720 ft
- Phillips County2,660 ft
- Valley County2,580 ft
- McCone County2,470 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana44th highest of 54
- Counties in the United States418th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Crown Butte, Garfield County3,640 ft
- Robbers Roost3,560 ft
- School Butte3,540 ft
- McGinnis Butte3,520 ft
- Hawks Nest3,520 ft
The one town in Garfield County
- Jordan2,600 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. 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.