Goldendale, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,110 ft 640 m1,980 ft 605 m1,910 ft 585 m1,790 ft 545 m1,660 ft 505 m1,590 ft 485 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
Goldendale sits at about 1,640 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,640 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,620–1,700 ft
Lowest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,110 ft 640 m
on the north side
Average
1,690 ft 515 m
all land inside city limits
Goldendale spans about 520 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 | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,110 ft640 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Goldendale | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Airport (S20) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.7 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,678 ft511 m |
| Average of all land | 1,690 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Klickitat County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 3,525 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,191 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.8207° N, 120.8217° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Goldendale (S20) 1,678 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98620
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moro, OR1,870 ft
- Goldendale1,640 ft
- Centerville1,610 ft
- Wasco, OR1,290 ft
- Klickitat460 ft
- Wishram390 ft
- Biggs Junction, OR360 ft
- Rufus, OR240 ft
- The Dalles, OR240 ft
- Maryhill220 ft
- Dallesport210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington98th highest of 639
- Towns in Klickitat County4th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Adams12,281 ft
- Indian Rock5,830 ft
- Little Huckleberry Mountain4,780 ft
- Lone Pine Butte4,730 ft
- Stacker Butte3,170 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.