Stillwater County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,640 ft 3,850 m10,310 ft 3,140 m9,150 ft 2,785 m6,820 ft 2,080 m4,490 ft 1,370 m3,320 ft 1,015 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
Stillwater County averages about 5,070 ft (1,545 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,320 ft on the east side to 12,640 ft on Mount Wood.
Average elevation
5,070 ft 1,545 m
all land inside the county
Highest
12,640 ft 3,850 m
on Mount Wood
Lowest
3,320 ft 1,015 m
on the east side
Stillwater County spans about 9,320 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 | 5,070 ft1,545 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Wood (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 12,640 ft3,850 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,320 ft1,015 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
46 mi south to north through Columbus.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 9,450 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,796.5 sq mi + 9.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.3 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 71%, Middle Rocky Mountains 29%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 88%, Big Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Park County6,970 ft
- Sweet Grass County5,620 ft
- Carbon County5,560 ft
- Stillwater County5,070 ft
- Golden Valley County4,190 ft
- Yellowstone County3,490 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana14th highest of 54
- Counties in the United States172nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Wood12,640 ft
- Mount Hague12,320 ft
- Twin Peaks11,760 ft
- Tumble Mountain11,329 ft
- Two Sisters11,130 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.
- 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.