Kirkland, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
530 ft 160 m400 ft 125 m340 ft 105 m210 ft 65 m81 ft 25 m16 ft 5 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
Kirkland sits at about 250 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
250 ft 75 m
most residents: 72–420 ft
Lowest
16 ft 5 m
on the south side
Highest
530 ft 160 m
on the southeast side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside city limits
Kirkland spans about 514 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 | 250 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 530 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 16 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kirkland | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (BFI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi southwest of the city limits | 22 ft7 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in King County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 95,499 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.8 sq mi + 4.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,360 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.6815° N, 122.2087° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Boeing Field/King County International (BFI) 22 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 98033 98034
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bellevue300 ft
- Kirkland250 ft
- Woodinville230 ft
- Lake Forest Park230 ft
- Bothell230 ft
- Clyde Hill220 ft
- Redmond190 ft
- Kenmore170 ft
- Medina98 ft
- Yarrow Point91 ft
- Hunts Point44 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington423rd highest of 639
- Towns in King County44th highest of 62
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rattlesnake Mountain, King County3,519 ft
- Tiger Mountain3,004 ft
- Taylor Mountain2,610 ft
- Squak Mountain2,020 ft
- Gold Mountain, Kitsap County1,760 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 16 ft at 47.6746° N, 122.2057° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.