Shawmut, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,980 ft 1,210 m3,940 ft 1,200 m3,910 ft 1,195 m3,870 ft 1,180 m3,830 ft 1,170 m3,810 ft 1,160 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Shawmut sits at about 3,860 ft (1,180 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,860 ft 1,180 m
few residents
Lowest
3,810 ft 1,160 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,980 ft 1,210 m
on the northeast side
Average
3,880 ft 1,180 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shawmut spans about 170 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 | 3,860 ft1,180 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 3,980 ft1,210 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 3,810 ft1,160 m |
| Average of all land | 3,880 ft1,180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the middle of Shawmut.
Altitude Effects
What 3,860 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.8 °F96.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
26.0 inHg (88.0 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wheatland County, Montana, United States
- Population
- 42 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.3458° N, 109.5229° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Musselshell River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 59078
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Judith Gap4,620 ft
- Twodot4,440 ft
- Springwater Colony4,430 ft
- Duncan Ranch Colony4,370 ft
- Harlowton4,210 ft
- Rapelje4,060 ft
- Broadview3,880 ft
- Shawmut3,860 ft
- Golden Valley Colony3,770 ft
- Ryegate3,660 ft
- Lavina3,440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montana189th highest of 497
- Towns in Wheatland Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Crazy Peak11,170 ft
- Conical Peak10,750 ft
- Greathouse Peak8,690 ft
- Old Baldy, Fergus County8,640 ft
- Porcupine Butte7,010 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Shawmut 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.