Kalama, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 345 m840 ft 255 m700 ft 215 m430 ft 130 m150 ft 45 m6 ft 2 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
Kalama sits at about 210 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
210 ft 65 m
most residents: 100–490 ft
Lowest
6 ft 2 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,120 ft 345 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
250 ft 75 m
all land inside city limits
Kalama spans about 1,114 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 | 210 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,120 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 6 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kalama | 27 ft8 m |
| Airport (KLS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi north of the city limits | 20 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 3,131 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 869 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.0084° N, 122.8446° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Southwest Washington Regional (KLS) 20 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98625
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kalama210 ft
- Beacon Hill200 ft
- Rainier, OR140 ft
- St. Helens, OR110 ft
- Columbia City, OR93 ft
- Prescott, OR37 ft
- Lexington32 ft
- Woodland31 ft
- Kelso23 ft
- Deer Island, OR21 ft
- Longview12 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington458th highest of 639
- Towns in Cowlitz County4th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lakeview Peak3,880 ft
- Davis Peak, Cowlitz County2,957 ft
- Abernathy Mountain2,600 ft
- Green Mountain, Washington County2,220 ft
- Green Mountain, Clark County2,060 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.