Desert Aire, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m580 ft 180 m570 ft 175 m530 ft 165 m500 ft 155 m490 ft 150 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
Desert Aire sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 530–580 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the west side
Highest
620 ft 185 m
on the north side
Average
550 ft 165 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Desert Aire spans about 130 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 620 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Desert Aire | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (M94) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 586 ft179 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft165 m |
| Nearest peak Hog Ranch Buttes, 7.7 mi west of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 4,192 ft1,278 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Grant County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 2,288 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 674 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.6793° N, 119.9173° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Desert Aire Regional (M94) 586 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99349
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Terrace Heights1,170 ft
- Royal City1,100 ft
- Moxee1,070 ft
- Zillah830 ft
- Outlook780 ft
- Mattawa760 ft
- Sunnyside750 ft
- Vantage710 ft
- Beverly580 ft
- Desert Aire560 ft
- Schwana540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington247th highest of 639
- Towns in Grant County24th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Table Mountain6,364 ft
- Cleman Mountain5,110 ft
- Yakima Ridge4,195 ft
- Hog Ranch Buttes4,192 ft
- Lookout3,632 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.
- Desert Aire 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.