Rainier, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m380 ft 115 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
Rainier sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 420–500 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the southeast side
Average
450 ft 140 m
all land inside city limits
Rainier spans about 140 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rainier | 430 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Thurston County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 2,506 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,442 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.8882° N, 122.6885° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- ZIP codes 1
- 98576
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rainier470 ft
- Yelm350 ft
- Roy340 ft
- McKenna310 ft
- North Yelm300 ft
- Tenino290 ft
- Bucoda250 ft
- Nisqually Indian Community240 ft
- Lacey210 ft
- Tanglewilde200 ft
- Tumwater190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington277th highest of 639
- Towns in Thurston Countyhighest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Storm King Mountain, Lewis County4,740 ft
- Winters Mountain3,680 ft
- Cottlers Rock2,780 ft
- Capitol Peak, Thurston County2,671 ft
- Blue Mountain, Grays Harbor County1,780 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.