Forks, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m470 ft 140 m410 ft 125 m300 ft 90 m190 ft 55 m130 ft 40 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
Forks sits at about 310 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
310 ft 95 m
most residents: 280–370 ft
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the southwest side
Highest
580 ft 175 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
300 ft 90 m
all land inside city limits
Forks spans about 450 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 | 310 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 130 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Forks | 310 ft95 m |
| Airport (UIL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi west of the city limits | 194 ft59 m |
| Average of all land | 300 ft90 m |
| Nearest peak Calawah Ridge, 3.3 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,870 ft570 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clallam County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 3,433 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi
- Density
- 825 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.9504° N, 124.3855° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Quillayute (UIL) 194 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98331
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Neilton530 ft
- Forks310 ft
- Amanda Park310 ft
- Port Angeles230 ft
- Port Angeles East190 ft
- Santiago140 ft
- Sekiu85 ft
- Queets68 ft
- Clallam Bay21 ft
- Neah Bay20 ft
- Taholah17 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington371st highest of 639
- Towns in Clallam County3rd highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ellis Mountain2,677 ft
- Deadmans Hill2,560 ft
- Bigler Mountain2,560 ft
- Stolzenburg Mountain2,120 ft
- Calawah Ridge1,870 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.