Rainier, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 360 m890 ft 270 m740 ft 225 m450 ft 135 m150 ft 45 m5 ft 2 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rainier sits at about 140 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
140 ft 45 m
most residents: 27–370 ft
Lowest
5 ft 2 m
on the west side
Highest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the south side
Average
470 ft 140 m
all land inside city limits
Rainier spans about 1,185 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 | 140 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 5 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rainier | 52 ft16 m |
| Airport (KLS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi northeast of the city limits | 20 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Columbia County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 1,932 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 473 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.0890° N, 122.9359° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Southwest Washington Regional (KLS) 20 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97048
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Longview Heights, WA310 ft
- Kalama, WA210 ft
- Beacon Hill, WA200 ft
- Rainier140 ft
- Clatskanie89 ft
- Castle Rock, WA52 ft
- Prescott37 ft
- Lexington, WA32 ft
- Kelso, WA23 ft
- Deer Island21 ft
- Longview, WA12 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon354th highest of 425
- Towns in Columbia County2nd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Saddle Mountain, Clatsop County3,270 ft
- Nicolai Mountain3,010 ft
- Elk Mountain, Clatsop County2,780 ft
- Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County2,440 ft
- Green Mountain, Washington County2,220 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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).
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.