Key Center, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
310 ft 95 m230 ft 70 m190 ft 60 m110 ft 35 m38 ft 12 m0 ft 0 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Key Center sits at about 190 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
190 ft 55 m
most residents: 100–220 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Salish Sea
Highest
310 ft 95 m
on the north side
Average
170 ft 50 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Key Center spans about 310 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 | 190 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 310 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Salish Sea | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Key Center | 180 ft55 m |
| Airport (TIW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 295 ft90 m |
| Average of all land | 170 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 3,863 2020 Census
- Land area
- 14.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 264 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.3407° N, 122.7454° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Tacoma Narrows (TIW) 295 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 98329 98349 98394
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Purdy330 ft
- Rosedale260 ft
- Stansberry Lake250 ft
- Artondale240 ft
- Wauna240 ft
- Home220 ft
- Allyn200 ft
- Key Center190 ft
- Vaughn120 ft
- Raft Island85 ft
- Grapeview65 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington485th highest of 639
- Towns in Pierce County58th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Brothers6,840 ft
- Mount Washington6,210 ft
- Copper Mountain, Mason County5,390 ft
- Dow Mountain2,520 ft
- Gold Mountain, Kitsap County1,760 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Key Center is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.