Kittitas, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,700 ft 515 m1,670 ft 510 m1,660 ft 505 m1,630 ft 495 m1,600 ft 490 m1,590 ft 485 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
Kittitas sits at about 1,660 ft (505 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,660 ft 505 m
most residents: 1,640–1,680 ft
Lowest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the south side
Highest
1,700 ft 515 m
on the north side
Average
1,650 ft 500 m
all land inside city limits
Kittitas spans about 110 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 | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,700 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kittitas | 1,650 ft500 m |
| Airport (ELN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,763 ft537 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft500 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kittitas County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 1,445 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,850 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.9832° N, 120.4170° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Yakima River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Bowers Field (ELN) 1,763 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98934
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tieton1,950 ft
- Kittitas1,660 ft
- Thorp1,640 ft
- Ellensburg1,590 ft
- Naches1,470 ft
- Eschbach1,290 ft
- Gleed1,240 ft
- Selah1,220 ft
- Vantage710 ft
- Sunland Estates610 ft
- Beverly580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington93rd highest of 639
- Towns in Kittitas County7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Table Mountain6,364 ft
- Cleman Mountain5,110 ft
- Horse Lake Mountain4,620 ft
- Hog Ranch Buttes4,192 ft
- Lookout Mountain, Kittitas County3,470 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.