Coulee Dam, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,370 ft 415 m1,300 ft 395 m1,160 ft 355 m1,030 ft 315 m960 ft 295 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Coulee Dam sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,100–1,260 ft
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the north side
Highest
1,500 ft 460 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,150 ft 350 m
all land inside town limits
Coulee Dam spans about 540 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 960 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Coulee Dam | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Airport (3W7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southwest of the town limits | 1,593 ft486 m |
| Average of all land | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Nearest peak Mica Mountain, 9.3 mi east of the town limits | 4,060 ft1,240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Okanogan and Douglas counties, Washington, United States
- Population
- 1,242 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,735 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.9654° N, 118.9761° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Grand Coulee Dam (3W7) 1,593 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99116
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Creston2,450 ft
- Wilbur2,220 ft
- Almira1,940 ft
- Hartline1,910 ft
- Nespelem1,840 ft
- Nespelem Community1,800 ft
- Electric City1,660 ft
- Grand Coulee1,620 ft
- Keller1,460 ft
- Coulee Dam1,180 ft
- Elmer City1,070 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington145th highest of 639
- Towns in Okanogan County9th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Keller Butte4,835 ft
- Whitestone Ridge4,765 ft
- Mica Mountain4,060 ft
- Whitmore Mountain3,950 ft
- Boot Mountain2,850 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.