Lake Tapps, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 220 m590 ft 180 m520 ft 160 m400 ft 120 m270 ft 80 m200 ft 60 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lake Tapps sits at about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
570 ft 175 m
most residents: 520–620 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the southwest side
Highest
710 ft 220 m
on the south side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lake Tapps spans about 510 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 | 570 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 710 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake Tapps | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (SEA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi north of the CDP boundary | 432 ft132 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 12,962 2020 Census
- Land area
- 12.3 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,057 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.2445° N, 122.1909° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Seattle-tacoma International (SEA) 432 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 98321 98391
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bonney Lake590 ft
- Lake Tapps570 ft
- Lake Holm420 ft
- Lakeland South380 ft
- Edgewood360 ft
- Auburn290 ft
- Alderton82 ft
- Pacific76 ft
- Algona76 ft
- Sumner68 ft
- North Puyallup53 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington244th highest of 639
- Towns in Pierce County17th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bearhead Mountain6,093 ft
- Rattlesnake Mountain, King County3,519 ft
- Tiger Mountain3,004 ft
- Taylor Mountain2,610 ft
- Squak Mountain2,020 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.
- Lake Tapps 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.