Mount Vernon, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m710 ft 215 m590 ft 180 m360 ft 110 m120 ft 40 m8 ft 2 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
Mount Vernon sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 29–360 ft
Lowest
8 ft 2 m
on the south side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on Little Mountain
Average
180 ft 55 m
all land inside city limits
Mount Vernon spans about 932 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Little Mountain | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 8 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Vernon | 99 ft30 m |
| Airport (BVS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi northwest of the city limits | 145 ft44 m |
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
| Nearest peak Haystack Mountain, 8.7 mi east of the city limits | 4,170 ft1,270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Skagit County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 35,344 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,874 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.4212° N, 122.3340° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Skagit Regional (BVS) 145 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 98273 98274
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake McMurray430 ft
- Big Lake260 ft
- Lake Ketchum230 ft
- Mount Vernon150 ft
- Bay View83 ft
- Sedro-Woolley58 ft
- Clear Lake, Skagit County58 ft
- Burlington35 ft
- Bow13 ft
- La Conner8 ft
- Conway8 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington508th highest of 639
- Towns in Skagit County8th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lyman Hill4,310 ft
- Haystack Mountain4,170 ft
- Stimson Hill2,880 ft
- Chuckanut Mountain2,300 ft
- Devils Mountain1,730 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.