Silver Gate, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,490 ft 3,200 m9,710 ft 2,960 m9,330 ft 2,840 m8,550 ft 2,605 m7,770 ft 2,370 m7,380 ft 2,250 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
Silver Gate sits at about 8,440 ft (2,570 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
8,440 ft 2,570 m
few residents
Lowest
7,380 ft 2,250 m
near the middle
Highest
10,490 ft 3,200 m
on Mineral Mountain
Average
8,490 ft 2,590 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Silver Gate spans about 3,110 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 | 8,440 ft2,570 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Mineral Mountain | 10,490 ft3,200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 7,380 ft2,250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Silver Gate | 7,390 ft2,255 m |
| Average of all land | 8,490 ft2,590 m |
| Nearest peak Pilot Peak, 4.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 11,640 ft3,545 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 8,440 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
196.3 °F91.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
73% of sea level
21.9 inHg (74.0 kPa): each breath holds 27% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+17% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
CDC: about 1 in 4 visitors who sleep above 8,000 ft get altitude sickness. CDC Yellow Book
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Park County, Montana, United States
- Population
- 19 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.4 sq mi
- Density
- 4.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0069° N, 109.9896° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Middle Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Yellowstone River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 59081
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Silver Gate8,440 ft
- Cooke City7,610 ft
- Jardine7,510 ft
- Mammoth, WY6,030 ft
- Red Lodge5,580 ft
- Gardiner5,310 ft
- Corwin Springs5,170 ft
- Luther5,140 ft
- Roscoe5,000 ft
- Nye4,830 ft
- Fishtail4,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montanahighest of 497
- Towns in Park Countyhighest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Peak11,640 ft
- Abiathar Peak10,935 ft
- Cutoff Mountain10,690 ft
- The Thunderer10,520 ft
- Barronette Peak10,420 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.
- Silver Gate 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.