Moses Lake, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 385 m1,210 ft 370 m1,180 ft 360 m1,130 ft 345 m1,070 ft 325 m1,040 ft 320 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
Moses Lake sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 1,060–1,180 ft
Lowest
1,040 ft 320 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the east side
Average
1,140 ft 345 m
all land inside city limits
Moses Lake spans about 230 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Moses Lake | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Airport (MWH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi north of the city limits | 1,189 ft362 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grant County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 26,969 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.1 sq mi + 3.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,487 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1301° N, 119.2781° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Grant County International (MWH) 1,189 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98837
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ephrata1,320 ft
- Warden1,310 ft
- Wilson Creek1,280 ft
- Wheeler1,280 ft
- Lakeview1,200 ft
- Moses Lake North1,190 ft
- Marine View1,150 ft
- Soap Lake1,110 ft
- Moses Lake1,100 ft
- Cascade Valley1,100 ft
- Othello1,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington153rd highest of 639
- Towns in Grant County17th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Badger Mountain4,240 ft
- Yakima Ridge4,195 ft
- Hog Ranch Buttes4,192 ft
- Chelan Butte3,839 ft
- Lookout3,632 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.