Port Townsend, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
300 ft 90 m220 ft 70 m190 ft 55 m110 ft 35 m41 ft 13 m5 ft 1 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
Port Townsend sits at about 140 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
140 ft 40 m
most residents: 31–260 ft
Lowest
5 ft 1 m
on the northwest side
Highest
300 ft 90 m
on the west side
Average
140 ft 40 m
all land inside city limits
Port Townsend spans about 295 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 | 140 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 300 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 5 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Port Townsend | 130 ft40 m |
| Airport (0S9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi southwest of the city limits | 110 ft34 m |
| Average of all land | 140 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 10,649 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,534 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.1170° N, 122.7604° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Jefferson County International (0S9) 110 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98368
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bell Hill730 ft
- Port Ludlow210 ft
- Camano210 ft
- Blyn190 ft
- Oak Harbor140 ft
- Port Townsend140 ft
- Freeland120 ft
- Port Hadlock-Irondale120 ft
- Coupeville110 ft
- Marrowstone100 ft
- Jamestown27 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington520th highest of 639
- Towns in Jefferson County4th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mountain, Clallam County6,000 ft
- Maynard Peak5,040 ft
- Mount Zion4,260 ft
- Mount Walker2,800 ft
- Big Skidder Hill2,120 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.