Klickitat County, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,830 ft 1,775 m4,390 ft 1,340 m3,670 ft 1,120 m2,230 ft 680 m800 ft 245 m78 ft 24 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Klickitat County averages about 2,070 ft (630 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 78 ft on the west side to 5,830 ft on Indian Rock.
Average elevation
2,070 ft 630 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,830 ft 1,775 m
on Indian Rock
Lowest
78 ft 24 m
on the west side
Klickitat County spans about 5,752 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,070 ft630 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Indian Rock (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 5,830 ft1,775 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 78 ft24 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
25 mi south to north through Goldendale.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Washington, United States
- Population
- 24,124 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,871.6 sq mi + 32.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform regions
- Columbia Plateau 84%, Cascade-sierra Mountains 16%
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hood River County, OR3,060 ft
- Skamania County2,900 ft
- Yakima County2,840 ft
- Wasco County, OR2,520 ft
- Morrow County, OR2,350 ft
- Klickitat County2,070 ft
- Gilliam County, OR1,990 ft
- Sherman County, OR1,850 ft
- Benton County990 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Washington21st highest of 39
- Counties in the United States601st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Indian Rock5,830 ft
- Castle Rock, Klickitat County5,640 ft
- Simcoe Mountain5,450 ft
- Lone Pine Butte4,730 ft
- Stacker Butte3,170 ft
All 13 towns in Klickitat County by typical elevation
- Bickleton3,020 ft
- Trout Lake1,920 ft
- Glenwood1,900 ft
- Goldendale1,640 ft
- Centerville1,610 ft
- White Salmon660 ft
- Klickitat460 ft
- Wishram390 ft
- Roosevelt370 ft
- Maryhill220 ft
- Dallesport210 ft
- Lyle150 ft
- Bingen130 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 76 ft at 45.7068° N, 121.4518° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.