Carson, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,420 ft 435 m1,200 ft 365 m750 ft 230 m300 ft 90 m78 ft 24 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
Carson sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 470–590 ft
Lowest
78 ft 24 m
on the east side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
630 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Carson spans about 1,792 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 78 ft24 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carson | 470 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 630 ft195 m |
| Nearest peak Augspurger Mountain, 4.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 3,670 ft1,120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Skamania County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 2,323 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.8 sq mi
- Density
- 485 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.7254° N, 121.8192° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 98610
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Parkdale, OR1,740 ft
- Mount Hood, OR1,530 ft
- Odell, OR740 ft
- White Salmon660 ft
- Carson540 ft
- Hood River, OR470 ft
- Stevenson260 ft
- Mosier, OR210 ft
- Cascade Locks, OR180 ft
- Bingen130 ft
- North Bonneville45 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington252nd highest of 639
- Towns in Skamania Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Defiance4,960 ft
- Little Huckleberry Mountain4,780 ft
- Soda Peaks4,530 ft
- Augspurger Mountain3,670 ft
- Big Butte3,410 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.
- Carson 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.