Valier, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,840 ft 1,170 m3,830 ft 1,165 m3,820 ft 1,165 m3,820 ft 1,165 m3,810 ft 1,160 m3,800 ft 1,160 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Valier sits at about 3,830 ft (1,165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,830 ft 1,165 m
most residents: 3,820–3,830 ft
Lowest
3,800 ft 1,160 m
on the north side
Highest
3,840 ft 1,170 m
on the south side
Average
3,820 ft 1,165 m
all land inside town limits
Valier spans about 40 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 3,830 ft1,165 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 3,840 ft1,170 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 3,800 ft1,160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Valier | 3,820 ft1,165 m |
| Average of all land | 3,820 ft1,165 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,830 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.9 °F96.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
26.0 inHg (88.1 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
- Town in Pondera County, Montana, United States
- Population
- 538 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 622 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.3078° N, 112.2498° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Marias River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 59486
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rockport Colony4,410 ft
- Pendroy4,270 ft
- Dupuyer4,130 ft
- Pondera Colony3,990 ft
- Birch Creek Colony3,960 ft
- New Miami Colony3,860 ft
- Kingsbury Colony3,840 ft
- Midway Colony3,840 ft
- Valier3,830 ft
- Little Browning3,680 ft
- Conrad3,520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montana195th highest of 497
- Towns in Pondera County8th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Choteau Mountain8,402 ft
- Mount Frazier8,300 ft
- Old Man of the Hills8,210 ft
- Mount Richmond8,160 ft
- Feather Woman Mountain7,570 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.