Powell County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,170 ft 3,100 m8,590 ft 2,620 m7,800 ft 2,380 m6,230 ft 1,900 m4,650 ft 1,415 m3,860 ft 1,175 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
Powell County averages about 5,690 ft (1,735 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,860 ft on the west side to 10,173 ft on Mount Powell.
Average elevation
5,690 ft 1,735 m
all land inside the county
Highest
10,173 ft 3,101 m
on Mount Powell
Lowest
3,860 ft 1,175 m
on the west side
Powell County spans about 6,310 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 | 5,690 ft1,735 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Powell (NGS survey height) | 10,173 ft3,101 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 3,860 ft1,175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
33 mi west to east through Deer Lodge.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 7,120 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,326.0 sq mi + 6.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Deer Lodge County6,680 ft
- Granite County6,120 ft
- Jefferson County5,890 ft
- Powell County5,690 ft
- Lewis and Clark County5,360 ft
- Flathead County4,980 ft
- Missoula County4,960 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana9th highest of 54
- Counties in the United States130th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Powell10,173 ft
- Goat Mountain8,800 ft
- Una Mountain8,590 ft
- Gust Mountain8,570 ft
- Cardinal Peak8,560 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; 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.
- 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, 3,860 ft at 47.0224° N, 113.3029° 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.