Black Diamond, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m920 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m680 ft 210 m530 ft 160 m450 ft 135 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
Black Diamond sits at about 580 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 175 m
most residents: 540–760 ft
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the east side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside city limits
Black Diamond spans about 620 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 | 580 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 450 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Black Diamond | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (S36) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi northwest of the city limits | 472 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in King County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 6,787 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.6 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,029 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.3087° N, 122.0032° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Crest Airfield (S36) 472 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98010
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Enumclaw750 ft
- Buckley730 ft
- Ravensdale610 ft
- Black Diamond580 ft
- Lake Tapps570 ft
- Maple Valley560 ft
- Hobart550 ft
- Shadow Lake540 ft
- Lake Morton-Berrydale490 ft
- Covington430 ft
- Lake Holm420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington242nd highest of 639
- Towns in King County9th highest of 62
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Kent5,050 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 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).
- 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.