College Place, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m830 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 m710 ft 220 m690 ft 210 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
College Place sits at about 810 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 245 m
most residents: 780–840 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the southwest side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the east side
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside city limits
College Place spans about 180 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 | 810 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for College Place | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (ALW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,194 ft364 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Walla Walla County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 9,846 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,776 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.0493° N, 118.3883° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Walla Walla Regional (ALW) 1,194 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 99324 99362
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Weston, OR1,870 ft
- Athena, OR1,740 ft
- Dixie1,560 ft
- Prescott1,050 ft
- Walla Walla East1,030 ft
- Milton-Freewater, OR1,020 ft
- Walla Walla980 ft
- College Place810 ft
- Garrett790 ft
- Umapine, OR680 ft
- Touchet450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington196th highest of 639
- Towns in Walla Walla County6th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Misery6,370 ft
- Table Rock6,253 ft
- Mount Emily, Union County6,114 ft
- Johnson Rock5,730 ft
- Mount Harris5,361 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.