Custer, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
99 ft 30 m80 ft 24 m70 ft 21 m51 ft 16 m32 ft 10 m23 ft 7 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
Custer sits at about 45 ft (14 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
45 ft 14 m
most residents: 34–65 ft
Lowest
23 ft 7 m
on the west side
Highest
99 ft 30 m
on the southeast side
Average
48 ft 15 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Custer spans about 76 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 | 45 ft14 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 99 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 23 ft7 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Custer | 40 ft12 m |
| Airport (BLI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 171 ft52 m |
| Average of all land | 48 ft15 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Whatcom County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 518 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 231 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.9173° N, 122.6380° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Bellingham International (BLI) 171 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 98240 98248
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Geneva440 ft
- Bellingham170 ft
- Marietta-Alderwood130 ft
- Lynden110 ft
- Ferndale98 ft
- Everson89 ft
- Nooksack87 ft
- Blaine65 ft
- Birch Bay49 ft
- Custer45 ft
- Sumas41 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington595th highest of 639
- Towns in Whatcom County18th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sumas Mountain3,430 ft
- Lookout Mountain, Whatcom County2,670 ft
- Mount Constitution2,399 ft
- Lummi Peak1,690 ft
- Squalicum Mountain1,540 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.
- Custer 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.