Phillips County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,740 ft 1,750 m4,840 ft 1,475 m4,390 ft 1,335 m3,490 ft 1,065 m2,590 ft 790 m2,140 ft 650 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
Phillips County averages about 2,660 ft (810 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,140 ft on the northeast side to 5,740 ft on Antoine Butte.
Average elevation
2,660 ft 810 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,740 ft 1,750 m
on Antoine Butte
Lowest
2,140 ft 650 m
on the northeast side
Phillips County spans about 3,600 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 | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Antoine Butte (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 5,740 ft1,750 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,140 ft650 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
53 mi west to east through Malta.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 4,214 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5,140.4 sq mi + 71.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Fergus County3,800 ft
- Blaine County3,070 ft
- Petroleum County2,960 ft
- Garfield County2,820 ft
- Phillips County2,660 ft
- Valley County2,580 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana47th highest of 54
- Counties in the United States450th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Antoine Butte5,740 ft
- Old Scraggy Peak5,690 ft
- Shell Butte, Phillips County5,690 ft
- Beaver Mountain5,540 ft
- Mission Peak5,500 ft
All 9 towns in Phillips County by typical elevation
- Zortman4,280 ft
- Landusky4,040 ft
- Loring Colony2,840 ft
- Whitewater2,330 ft
- Dodson2,290 ft
- Malta2,260 ft
- East Malta Colony2,250 ft
- Sleeping Buffalo2,240 ft
- Saco2,180 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 3 arc-second (≈300 ft, 93 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.