Palouse, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,660 ft 810 m2,600 ft 790 m2,560 ft 780 m2,500 ft 765 m2,440 ft 745 m2,410 ft 735 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Palouse sits at about 2,530 ft (770 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,530 ft 770 m
most residents: 2,480–2,630 ft
Lowest
2,410 ft 735 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,660 ft 810 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,510 ft 765 m
all land inside city limits
Palouse spans about 250 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 | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,410 ft735 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Palouse | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Airport (PUW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi south of the city limits | 2,567 ft782 m |
| Average of all land | 2,510 ft765 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Whitman County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 1,029 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 983 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.9102° N, 117.0757° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Palouse River → Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Pullman/Moscow Regional (PUW) 2,567 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99161
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Viola, ID2,750 ft
- Onaway, ID2,660 ft
- Farmington2,640 ft
- Moscow, ID2,620 ft
- Potlatch, ID2,590 ft
- Pullman2,530 ft
- Palouse2,530 ft
- Princeton, ID2,520 ft
- Garfield2,500 ft
- Albion2,250 ft
- Colfax2,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington14th highest of 639
- Towns in Whitman County6th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Misery6,370 ft
- Krell Hill3,670 ft
- Parker Butte3,290 ft
- Ringo Butte3,260 ft
- Angel Butte3,130 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).
- 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, 2,410 ft at 46.9165° N, 117.0818° 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.
- 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.