Kelso, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m530 ft 160 m440 ft 135 m270 ft 80 m93 ft 28 m6 ft 2 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Kelso sits at about 23 ft (7 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
23 ft 7 m
most residents: 14–200 ft
Lowest
6 ft 2 m
on the south side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the southeast side
Average
120 ft 35 m
all land inside city limits
Kelso spans about 694 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 | 23 ft7 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 6 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kelso | 66 ft20 m |
| Airport (KLS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 20 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 120 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 12,737 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.1 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,563 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.1468° N, 122.9084° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Southwest Washington Regional (KLS) 20 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 98626 98632
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Longview Heights310 ft
- Kalama210 ft
- Beacon Hill200 ft
- Rainier, OR140 ft
- Clatskanie, OR89 ft
- Castle Rock52 ft
- Prescott, OR37 ft
- Lexington32 ft
- Kelso23 ft
- Deer Island, OR21 ft
- Longview12 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington615th highest of 639
- Towns in Cowlitz County9th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lakeview Peak3,880 ft
- Nicolai Mountain3,010 ft
- Davis Peak, Cowlitz County2,957 ft
- Abernathy Mountain2,600 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.