Nooksack, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
140 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m110 ft 35 m98 ft 30 m82 ft 25 m74 ft 23 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
Nooksack sits at about 87 ft (27 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
87 ft 27 m
most residents: 82–89 ft
Lowest
74 ft 22 m
on the north side
Highest
140 ft 40 m
on the east side
Average
89 ft 27 m
all land inside city limits
Nooksack spans about 66 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 | 87 ft27 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 140 ft40 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 74 ft22 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nooksack | 85 ft26 m |
| Airport (BLI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi southwest of the city limits | 171 ft52 m |
| Average of all land | 89 ft27 m |
| Nearest peak Sumas Mountain, 3.8 mi east of the city limits | 3,430 ft1,045 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Whatcom County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 1,675 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,823 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.9276° N, 122.3215° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Canada
- Airport
- Bellingham International (BLI) 171 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98276
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Maple Falls640 ft
- Peaceful Valley500 ft
- Kendall460 ft
- Geneva440 ft
- Deming200 ft
- Bellingham170 ft
- Lynden110 ft
- Ferndale98 ft
- Everson89 ft
- Nooksack87 ft
- Sumas41 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington563rd highest of 639
- Towns in Whatcom County15th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sumas Mountain3,430 ft
- Lookout Mountain, Whatcom County2,670 ft
- Blue Mountain, Whatcom County2,440 ft
- Red Mountain, Whatcom County2,270 ft
- Squalicum Mountain1,540 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.