Hoquiam, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m340 ft 105 m280 ft 85 m170 ft 50 m57 ft 17 m0 ft 0 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
Hoquiam sits at about 11 ft (3 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
11 ft 3 m
most residents: 10–200 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Grays Harbor
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the northeast side
Average
97 ft 30 m
all land inside city limits
Hoquiam spans about 460 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 | 11 ft3 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Grays Harbor | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hoquiam | 11 ft3 m |
| Airport (HQM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 97 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 8,771 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.5 sq mi + 6.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 919 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.9809° N, 123.8893° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Bowerman Field (HQM) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98550
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Central Park93 ft
- Cosmopolis85 ft
- Markham59 ft
- Hogans Corner51 ft
- Ocosta45 ft
- Aberdeen Gardens30 ft
- Cohassett Beach20 ft
- Ocean Shores17 ft
- Westport14 ft
- Aberdeen13 ft
- Hoquiam11 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington635th highest of 639
- Towns in Grays Harbor Countylowest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Colonel Bob4,460 ft
- Stovepipe Mountain3,590 ft
- Capitol Peak, Thurston County2,671 ft
- Walville Peak2,427 ft
- Blue Mountain, Grays Harbor County1,780 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.