Longview, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 275 m680 ft 205 m570 ft 175 m340 ft 105 m110 ft 35 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Longview sits at about 12 ft (4 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
12 ft 4 m
most residents: 6–58 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the northwest side
Highest
910 ft 275 m
on the north side
Average
63 ft 19 m
all land inside city limits
Longview spans about 910 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 | 12 ft4 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 910 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Longview | 21 ft7 m |
| Airport (KLS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.2 mi southeast of the city limits | 20 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 63 ft19 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 38,294 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.8 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,586 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.1382° N, 122.9382° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Southwest Washington Regional (KLS) 20 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98632
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Longview Heights310 ft
- Kalama210 ft
- Beacon Hill200 ft
- Rainier, OR140 ft
- Clatskanie, OR89 ft
- Castle Rock52 ft
- Prescott, OR37 ft
- Lexington32 ft
- Kelso23 ft
- Deer Island, OR21 ft
- Longview12 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington633rd highest of 639
- Towns in Cowlitz Countylowest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lakeview Peak3,880 ft
- Nicolai Mountain3,010 ft
- Davis Peak, Cowlitz County2,957 ft
- Abernathy Mountain2,600 ft
- Green Mountain, Clark County2,060 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, 0 ft at 46.1785° N, 123.0138° 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.