Kicking Horse, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,130 ft 955 m3,100 ft 945 m3,090 ft 940 m3,060 ft 935 m3,040 ft 925 m3,020 ft 920 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kicking Horse sits at about 3,070 ft (935 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,070 ft 935 m
few residents
Lowest
3,020 ft 920 m
on the south side
Highest
3,130 ft 955 m
at the foot of the Mission Range
Average
3,070 ft 935 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Kicking Horse spans about 110 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 3,070 ft935 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Mission Range | 3,130 ft955 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 3,020 ft920 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kicking Horse | 3,060 ft935 m |
| Airport (7S0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi north of the CDP boundary | 3,086 ft941 m |
| Average of all land | 3,070 ft935 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Calowahcan, 5.2 mi east of the CDP boundary | 9,000 ft2,745 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,070 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.3 °F96.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.7 inHg (90.6 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lake County, Montana, United States
- Population
- 76 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.4605° N, 114.0751° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Clark Fork → Pend Oreille River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Ronan (7S0) 3,086 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 59824
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ravalli3,240 ft
- Turtle Lake3,120 ft
- Pablo3,090 ft
- Kicking Horse3,070 ft
- Ronan3,060 ft
- Kerr3,040 ft
- Polson2,970 ft
- St. Ignatius2,940 ft
- Charlo2,940 ft
- Sčilíp2,610 ft
- Old Agency2,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montana349th highest of 497
- Towns in Lake County8th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- McDonald Peak9,770 ft
- Mount Calowahcan9,000 ft
- Daughter of the Sun Mountain8,710 ft
- Sonyok Mountain5,640 ft
- Red Sleep Mountain4,887 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
- Kicking Horse is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.