Richland, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m990 ft 300 m880 ft 265 m660 ft 200 m440 ft 135 m330 ft 100 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Richland sits at about 410 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
410 ft 125 m
most residents: 370–620 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the south side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside city limits
Richland spans about 870 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 | 410 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Richland | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (PSC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi east of the city limits | 410 ft125 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
14 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Benton County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 64,372 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.5 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,516 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.2857° N, 119.2845° 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 4
- 99338 99352 99353 99354
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Basin City720 ft
- Prosser680 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 Washington314th highest of 639
- Towns in Benton County5th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lone Pine Butte4,730 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, 310 ft at 46.2540° N, 119.2640° 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.