Howell, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,480 ft 1,670 m5,220 ft 1,590 m5,090 ft 1,555 m4,840 ft 1,475 m4,580 ft 1,395 m4,450 ft 1,355 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Howell sits at about 4,630 ft (1,410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,630 ft 1,410 m
most residents: 4,510–4,730 ft
Lowest
4,450 ft 1,355 m
on the south side
Highest
5,480 ft 1,670 m
at the foot of the North Promontory Mountains
Average
4,660 ft 1,420 m
all land inside town limits
Howell spans about 1,030 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 | 4,630 ft1,410 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, at the foot of the North Promontory Mountains | 5,480 ft1,670 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 4,450 ft1,355 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Howell | 4,550 ft1,390 m |
| Average of all land | 4,660 ft1,420 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,630 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.4 °F95.2 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.2 inHg (85.5 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States
- Population
- 237 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7960° N, 112.4444° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Blue Creek → Great Salt Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 84316
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Utah215th highest of 334
- Towns in Box Elder County3rd highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Box Elder Peak, Box Elder County9,376 ft
- Gunsight Peak8,248 ft
- Messix Peak7,376 ft
- Mount Tarpey6,970 ft
- Little Mountain, Box Elder County5,609 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,440 ft at 41.7238° N, 112.4421° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.