Kalispell, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,120 ft 950 m3,070 ft 935 m3,040 ft 925 m2,980 ft 910 m2,930 ft 890 m2,900 ft 885 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Kalispell sits at about 2,960 ft (905 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,960 ft 905 m
most residents: 2,940–3,050 ft
Lowest
2,900 ft 885 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,120 ft 950 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,990 ft 915 m
all land inside city limits
Kalispell spans about 220 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 | 2,960 ft905 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 3,120 ft950 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,900 ft885 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kalispell | 2,960 ft900 m |
| Airport (GPI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi north of the city limits | 2,977 ft907 m |
| Average of all land | 2,990 ft915 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Flathead County, Montana, United States
- Population
- 31,296 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,321 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.1958° N, 114.3129° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Flathead River → Clark Fork → Pend Oreille River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Glacier Park International (GPI) 2,977 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 59901
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kila3,360 ft
- Rhodes3,280 ft
- Forest Hill Village3,160 ft
- Batavia3,130 ft
- Lakeside3,090 ft
- Columbia Falls3,070 ft
- Bigfork3,060 ft
- Kalispell2,960 ft
- Helena Flats2,940 ft
- Evergreen2,920 ft
- Somers2,920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montana374th highest of 497
- Towns in Flathead County21st highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Doris Mountain7,441 ft
- Blacktail Mountain, Flathead County6,773 ft
- Haskill Mountain6,260 ft
- Lion Hill4,820 ft
- Lion Mountain4,370 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).
- 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.