Orchards, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
290 ft 90 m270 ft 80 m260 ft 80 m240 ft 75 m220 ft 65 m210 ft 65 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Orchards sits at about 270 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 80 m
most residents: 230–280 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the southwest side
Highest
290 ft 90 m
on the north side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Orchards spans about 80 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 | 270 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 290 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (PDX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 31 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the middle of Orchards.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Clark County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 27,729 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi
- Density
- 5,186 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.6877° N, 122.5298° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Portland International (PDX) 31 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98682
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hockinson410 ft
- Brush Prairie290 ft
- Battle Ground290 ft
- Meadow Glade280 ft
- Orchards270 ft
- Minnehaha270 ft
- Mount Vista240 ft
- Barberton230 ft
- Five Corners220 ft
- Hazel Dell220 ft
- Salmon Creek190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington404th highest of 639
- Towns in Clark County11th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Soda Peaks4,530 ft
- Silver Star Mountain, Skamania County4,370 ft
- Lakeview Peak3,880 ft
- Davis Peak, Cowlitz County2,957 ft
- Green Mountain, Clark County2,060 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 210 ft at 45.6710° N, 122.5493° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Orchards is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.