Ephrata, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,020 ft 615 m1,820 ft 555 m1,720 ft 525 m1,520 ft 465 m1,320 ft 405 m1,220 ft 375 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
Ephrata sits at about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,260–1,340 ft
Lowest
1,220 ft 375 m
on the south side
Highest
2,020 ft 615 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,300 ft 395 m
all land inside city limits
Ephrata spans about 800 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 | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ephrata | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Airport (EPH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,276 ft389 m |
| Average of all land | 1,300 ft395 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grant County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 8,718 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.6 sq mi
- Density
- 820 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.3176° N, 119.5536° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- The Pot Hole basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Ephrata Municipal (EPH) 1,276 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98823
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ephrata1,320 ft
- Quincy1,300 ft
- Wilson Creek1,280 ft
- Wheeler1,280 ft
- George1,230 ft
- Lakeview1,200 ft
- Moses Lake North1,190 ft
- Soap Lake1,110 ft
- Moses Lake1,100 ft
- Cascade Valley1,100 ft
- Crescent Bar580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington125th highest of 639
- Towns in Grant County7th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burch Mountain4,940 ft
- Horse Lake Mountain4,620 ft
- Badger Mountain4,240 ft
- Chelan Butte3,839 ft
- Bear Mountain, Chelan County3,600 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.