Vaughn, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,430 ft 1,045 m3,400 ft 1,040 m3,390 ft 1,035 m3,370 ft 1,030 m3,350 ft 1,020 m3,340 ft 1,020 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
Vaughn sits at about 3,350 ft (1,020 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,350 ft 1,020 m
most residents: 3,340–3,370 ft
Lowest
3,340 ft 1,020 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,430 ft 1,045 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,360 ft 1,025 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Vaughn 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 3,350 ft1,020 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 3,430 ft1,045 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 3,340 ft1,020 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vaughn | 3,360 ft1,025 m |
| Airport (GTF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 3,680 ft1,122 m |
| Average of all land | 3,360 ft1,025 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,350 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.8 °F96.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.5 inHg (89.6 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cascade County, Montana, United States
- Population
- 737 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Density
- 206 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.5605° N, 111.5458° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Sun River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Great Falls International (GTF) 3,680 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 59404 59487
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cascade Colony3,710 ft
- Power3,690 ft
- Fort Shaw3,510 ft
- Fair Haven Colony3,450 ft
- Great Falls3,420 ft
- Sun River3,410 ft
- Black Eagle3,410 ft
- Ulm3,370 ft
- Sun Prairie3,360 ft
- Gibson Flats3,360 ft
- Vaughn3,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montana292nd highest of 497
- Towns in Cascade Countylowest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Highwood Baldy7,660 ft
- Adel Mountain7,090 ft
- Tiger Butte7,010 ft
- Mount Cecelia6,146 ft
- Square Butte, Cascade County4,801 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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.
- Vaughn 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.