Alderton, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m370 ft 115 m320 ft 95 m200 ft 60 m93 ft 28 m37 ft 11 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
Alderton sits at about 82 ft (25 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
82 ft 25 m
most residents: 73–100 ft
Lowest
38 ft 11 m
on the northwest side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the northeast side
Average
94 ft 29 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Alderton spans about 442 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 | 82 ft25 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 38 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alderton | 91 ft28 m |
| Airport (PLU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 538 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 94 ft29 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 3,274 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 572 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1695° N, 122.2293° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Pierce County/Thun Field (PLU) 538 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 98372 98374 98390 98391
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tehaleh720 ft
- Prairie Ridge640 ft
- Bonney Lake590 ft
- Lake Tapps570 ft
- South Hill500 ft
- Orting180 ft
- Puyallup150 ft
- McMillin140 ft
- Alderton82 ft
- Sumner68 ft
- North Puyallup53 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington571st highest of 639
- Towns in Pierce County69th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bearhead Mountain6,093 ft
- Rattlesnake Mountain, King County3,519 ft
- Tiger Mountain3,004 ft
- Taylor Mountain2,610 ft
- Squak Mountain2,020 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.
- Alderton 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.