McCone County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,440 ft 1,050 m3,070 ft 935 m2,880 ft 880 m2,510 ft 765 m2,130 ft 650 m1,940 ft 595 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
McCone County averages about 2,470 ft (755 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,940 ft on the northeast side to 3,440 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
2,470 ft 755 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,440 ft 1,050 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
1,940 ft 595 m
on the northeast side
McCone County spans about 1,500 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 | 2,470 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 3,440 ft1,050 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,940 ft595 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
62 mi south to north through Circle.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 1,717 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,642.2 sq mi + 39.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.6 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
- Garfield County2,820 ft
- Prairie County2,720 ft
- Valley County2,580 ft
- Dawson County2,560 ft
- McCone County2,470 ft
- Roosevelt County2,270 ft
- Richland County2,270 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana51st highest of 54
- Counties in the United States494th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Chalk Butte, McCone County3,050 ft
- Cobb Hill2,803 ft
- Bonhoff Butte2,800 ft
- McDonald Butte, McCone County2,800 ft
- Devils Table Rock2,780 ft
All 4 towns in McCone County by typical elevation
- Brockway2,580 ft
- Circle2,430 ft
- Vida2,390 ft
- Prairie Elk Colony2,040 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,940 ft at 48.0607° N, 105.2129° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.