Powder River County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,430 ft 1,350 m4,020 ft 1,225 m3,810 ft 1,160 m3,390 ft 1,035 m2,980 ft 905 m2,770 ft 845 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
Powder River County averages about 3,490 ft (1,065 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,770 ft on the northeast side to 4,430 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
3,490 ft 1,065 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,430 ft 1,350 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
2,770 ft 845 m
on the northeast side
Powder River County spans about 1,660 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 | 3,490 ft1,065 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 4,430 ft1,350 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,770 ft845 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
61 mi west to east through Broadus.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 1,734 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,298.2 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.5 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
- Sheridan County, WY5,150 ft
- Campbell County, WY4,480 ft
- Crook County, WY4,270 ft
- Big Horn County3,980 ft
- Powder River County3,490 ft
- Carter County3,410 ft
- Rosebud County3,100 ft
- Custer County2,830 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana32nd highest of 54
- Counties in the United States311th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Home Creek Butte4,410 ft
- Liscom Butte4,343 ft
- Cook Mountain, Powder River County4,330 ft
- Gardner Butte4,300 ft
- Diamond Butte, Powder River County4,303 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.
- 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.