Anacortes, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 385 m950 ft 290 m790 ft 240 m480 ft 145 m160 ft 50 m0 ft 0 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
Anacortes sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 36–310 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Guemes Channel
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on Mount Erie
Average
270 ft 80 m
all land inside city limits
Anacortes spans about 1,270 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Mount Erie | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Guemes Channel | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Anacortes | 19 ft6 m |
| Airport (74S) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 246 ft75 m |
| Average of all land | 270 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Skagit County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 18,148 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.7 sq mi + 4.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,552 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.5126° N, 122.6127° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Anacortes (74S) 246 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98221
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Alger290 ft
- Mount Vernon150 ft
- Anacortes150 ft
- Oak Harbor140 ft
- Bay View83 ft
- Burlington35 ft
- Whidbey Island Station21 ft
- Bow13 ft
- La Conner8 ft
- Conway8 ft
- Edison7 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington509th highest of 639
- Towns in Skagit County9th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lookout Mountain, Whatcom County2,670 ft
- Mount Constitution2,399 ft
- Chuckanut Mountain2,300 ft
- Devils Mountain1,730 ft
- Lummi Peak1,690 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).
- 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, 1 ft at 48.5185° N, 122.6074° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.