Maple Heights-Lake Desire, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m700 ft 215 m600 ft 185 m410 ft 125 m210 ft 65 m120 ft 35 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
Maple Heights-Lake Desire sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 480–590 ft
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the northwest side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on Cedar Mountain
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Maple Heights-Lake Desire spans about 770 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Cedar Mountain | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 120 ft35 m |
| Airport (SEA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.9 mi west of the CDP boundary | 432 ft132 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
| Nearest peak Squak Mountain, 3.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 2,020 ft615 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the middle of Maple Heights-Lake Desire.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in King County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 3,873 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 952 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.4442° N, 122.1039° 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 1
- 98058
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mirrormont660 ft
- Maple Valley560 ft
- Maple Heights-Lake Desire560 ft
- Hobart550 ft
- Shadow Lake540 ft
- Fairwood490 ft
- East Renton Highlands480 ft
- Newcastle440 ft
- Covington430 ft
- Renton370 ft
- Issaquah370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington249th highest of 639
- Towns in King County11th highest of 62
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Kent5,050 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.
- Maple Heights-Lake Desire 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.