Prairie Ridge, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m630 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m480 ft 145 m380 ft 115 m330 ft 100 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
Prairie Ridge sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 620–670 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the southeast side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the west side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Prairie Ridge spans about 390 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prairie Ridge | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (PLU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi west of the CDP boundary | 538 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 12,288 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi
- Density
- 2,912 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1376° N, 122.1487° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Pierce County/Thun Field (PLU) 538 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98391
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wilkeson800 ft
- Tehaleh720 ft
- Crocker710 ft
- Prairie Heights660 ft
- Prairie Ridge640 ft
- Bonney Lake590 ft
- South Hill500 ft
- South Prairie430 ft
- Orting180 ft
- McMillin140 ft
- Alderton82 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington232nd highest of 639
- Towns in Pierce County15th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bearhead Mountain6,093 ft
- Rattlesnake Mountain, King County3,519 ft
- Tiger Mountain3,004 ft
- Taylor Mountain2,610 ft
- Squak Mountain2,020 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).
- 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.
- Prairie Ridge 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.