Hill County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,910 ft 2,105 m5,800 ft 1,765 m5,240 ft 1,595 m4,120 ft 1,255 m3,000 ft 915 m2,440 ft 745 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
Hill County averages about 2,980 ft (910 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,440 ft on the east side to 6,910 ft on Baldy Mountain.
Average elevation
2,980 ft 910 m
all land inside the county
Highest
6,910 ft 2,105 m
on Baldy Mountain
Lowest
2,440 ft 745 m
on the east side
Hill County spans about 4,470 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 | 2,980 ft910 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Baldy Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 6,910 ft2,105 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 2,440 ft745 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
60 mi south to north through Havre.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 16,065 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,899.4 sq mi + 17.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 92%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Liberty County3,380 ft
- Chouteau County3,250 ft
- Blaine County3,070 ft
- Hill County2,980 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana41st highest of 54
- Counties in the United States388th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Baldy Mountain6,910 ft
- Wellen Peak6,370 ft
- Little Joe Peak6,320 ft
- Elk Peak, Hill County6,240 ft
- Bowery Peak6,140 ft
All 22 towns in Hill County by typical elevation
- Parker School4,030 ft
- Rocky Boy's Agency3,940 ft
- St. Pierre3,900 ft
- Sangrey3,600 ft
- Azure3,430 ft
- Inverness3,310 ft
- Rudyard3,110 ft
- Hingham3,030 ft
- Kremlin2,860 ft
- Gildford2,830 ft
- Hilldale Colony2,810 ft
- Gildford Colony2,780 ft
- Rocky Boy West partly2,760 ft
- East End Colony2,700 ft
- Box Elder2,680 ft
- Saddle Butte2,650 ft
- Laredo2,640 ft
- West Havre2,610 ft
- Herron2,600 ft
- Beaver Creek2,580 ft
- Havre2,540 ft
- Havre North2,490 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.