Montesano, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 240 m590 ft 180 m490 ft 150 m290 ft 90 m98 ft 30 m1 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
Montesano sits at about 67 ft (20 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
67 ft 20 m
most residents: 37–170 ft
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the south side
Highest
780 ft 240 m
on the northeast side
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside city limits
Montesano spans about 779 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 | 67 ft20 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 780 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Montesano | 63 ft19 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 4,194 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 384 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.9812° N, 123.6027° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 98563
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Porter280 ft
- Malone140 ft
- Brady130 ft
- Central Park93 ft
- Cosmopolis85 ft
- Montesano67 ft
- Elma66 ft
- Satsop43 ft
- Aberdeen Gardens30 ft
- Aberdeen13 ft
- Hoquiam11 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington578th highest of 639
- Towns in Grays Harbor County14th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stovepipe Mountain3,590 ft
- Rock Peak3,340 ft
- Capitol Peak, Thurston County2,671 ft
- Walville Peak2,427 ft
- Blue Mountain, Grays Harbor County1,780 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.