Wheatland County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,760 ft 2,670 m7,500 ft 2,285 m6,870 ft 2,095 m5,620 ft 1,710 m4,360 ft 1,330 m3,730 ft 1,140 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wheatland County averages about 4,830 ft (1,475 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,730 ft on the southeast side to 8,760 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
4,830 ft 1,475 m
all land inside the county
Highest
8,760 ft 2,670 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
3,730 ft 1,140 m
on the southeast side
Wheatland County spans about 5,030 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 | 4,830 ft1,475 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 8,760 ft2,670 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 3,730 ft1,140 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
34 mi south to north through Harlowton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 2,058 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,422.5 sq mi + 5.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.4 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains 91%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Meagher County5,870 ft
- Sweet Grass County5,620 ft
- Judith Basin County5,050 ft
- Wheatland County4,830 ft
- Golden Valley County4,190 ft
- Fergus County3,800 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montana18th highest of 54
- Counties in the United States188th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cinnamon Peak8,660 ft
- Bluff Mountain8,237 ft
- Bartleson Peak7,470 ft
- Elephant Rock7,020 ft
- Coffin Butte, Wheatland County6,253 ft
All 7 towns in Wheatland County by typical elevation
- Martinsdale Colony4,740 ft
- Judith Gap4,620 ft
- Twodot4,440 ft
- Springwater Colony4,430 ft
- Duncan Ranch Colony4,370 ft
- Harlowton4,210 ft
- Shawmut3,860 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; 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.