Pasco, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 165 m490 ft 150 m470 ft 140 m410 ft 125 m360 ft 110 m330 ft 100 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
Pasco sits at about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 130 m
most residents: 360–510 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
near the middle
Highest
550 ft 165 m
on the northwest side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside city limits
Pasco spans about 220 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 | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 550 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pasco | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (PSC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 410 ft125 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Franklin County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 81,724 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.0 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,093 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.2396° N, 119.1006° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Tri-Cities (PSC) 410 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99301
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Basin City720 ft
- Mesa690 ft
- West Richland590 ft
- Kennewick530 ft
- Benton City500 ft
- Pasco420 ft
- Richland410 ft
- Burbank400 ft
- Wallula390 ft
- West Pasco380 ft
- Finley360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington306th highest of 639
- Towns in Franklin County5th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Table Rock6,253 ft
- Yakima Ridge4,195 ft
- Hog Ranch Buttes4,192 ft
- Lookout3,632 ft
- Badger Mountain, Benton County1,590 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, 330 ft at 46.2743° N, 119.2401° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.