Ahtanum, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,330 ft 405 m1,280 ft 390 m1,200 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 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
Ahtanum sits at about 1,220 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,110–1,320 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the east side
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the west side
Average
1,240 ft 375 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ahtanum spans about 340 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 | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ahtanum | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Airport (YKM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Average of all land | 1,240 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Yakima County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 3,454 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.7 sq mi
- Density
- 447 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5596° N, 120.6220° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Yakima River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Yakima Air Trml/Mcallister Field (YKM) 1,099 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 98903 98908
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cowiche1,740 ft
- Summitview1,440 ft
- Eschbach1,290 ft
- Gleed1,240 ft
- Ahtanum1,220 ft
- Selah1,220 ft
- Terrace Heights1,170 ft
- Yakima1,110 ft
- Union Gap990 ft
- Parker930 ft
- Harrah830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington135th highest of 639
- Towns in Yakima County10th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Darland Mountain6,979 ft
- Cleman Mountain5,110 ft
- Goose Egg Mountain4,540 ft
- Yakima Ridge4,195 ft
- Hog Ranch Buttes4,192 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).
- 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.
- Ahtanum 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.