Prairie Elk Colony, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,080 ft 635 m2,060 ft 625 m2,050 ft 625 m2,020 ft 615 m2,000 ft 610 m1,990 ft 605 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Prairie Elk Colony sits at about 2,040 ft (620 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,040 ft 620 m
few residents
Lowest
1,990 ft 605 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,080 ft 635 m
on the south side
Average
2,030 ft 620 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Prairie Elk Colony spans about 90 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 | 2,040 ft620 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 2,080 ft635 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prairie Elk Colony | 2,040 ft620 m |
| Airport (OLF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,989 ft606 m |
| Average of all land | 2,030 ft620 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in McCone County, Montana, United States
- Population
- 0 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.0162° N, 105.7972° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- L M Clayton (OLF) 1,989 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 59201
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montana483rd highest of 497
- Towns in McCone Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Maxwell Hill2,420 ft
- Three Buttes, Valley County2,310 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).
- 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.
- Prairie Elk Colony 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. All public domain.