Adams County, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,100 ft 640 m1,730 ft 525 m1,540 ft 470 m1,180 ft 360 m810 ft 245 m620 ft 190 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
Adams County averages about 1,570 ft (480 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 620 ft on the west side to 2,100 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,100 ft 640 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the west side
Adams County spans about 1,480 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 | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,100 ft640 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
65 mi west to east through Othello.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Washington, United States
- Population
- 21,039 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,925.0 sq mi + 4.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean 67%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 21%, Lake Kahlotus basin (does not reach the sea) 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lincoln County2,160 ft
- Whitman County2,090 ft
- Adams County1,570 ft
- Grant County1,390 ft
- Franklin County950 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Washington24th highest of 39
- Counties in the United States801st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Marengo Hills1,930 ft
- Coyote Butte1,720 ft
- Terksaleeze Butte1,690 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.