Monroe, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m330 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m180 ft 55 m76 ft 23 m24 ft 7 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
Monroe sits at about 63 ft (19 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
63 ft 19 m
most residents: 35–250 ft
Lowest
24 ft 7 m
on the northwest side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the north side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside city limits
Monroe spans about 406 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 | 63 ft19 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 24 ft7 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Monroe | 73 ft22 m |
| Airport (PAE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi west of the city limits | 607 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Snohomish County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 19,927 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,102 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.8554° N, 121.9710° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Seattle Paine Field International (PAE) 607 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98272
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Three Lakes520 ft
- High Bridge420 ft
- Maltby390 ft
- Chain Lake370 ft
- Woods Creek330 ft
- Monroe North290 ft
- Cathcart280 ft
- North Sultan140 ft
- Sultan140 ft
- Snohomish120 ft
- Monroe63 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington582nd highest of 639
- Towns in Snohomish County65th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Index5,970 ft
- Mount Pilchuck5,300 ft
- Mount Stickney5,280 ft
- Ragged Ridge5,140 ft
- Green Mountain, Snohomish County4,450 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. All public domain.