Roche Harbor, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
270 ft 80 m200 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m100 ft 30 m34 ft 10 m0 ft 0 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
Roche Harbor sits at about 120 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
120 ft 35 m
most residents: 33–170 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Salish Sea
Highest
270 ft 80 m
on the east side
Average
100 ft 30 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Roche Harbor spans about 270 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 | 120 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 270 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Salish Sea | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Roche Harbor | 60 ft18 m |
| Airport (FHR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 113 ft34 m |
| Average of all land | 100 ft30 m |
| Nearest peak Turtleback Mountain, 6.6 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,520 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Juan County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 662 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi + 1.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.6098° N, 123.1488° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Friday Harbor (FHR) 113 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98250
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bellingham170 ft
- Anacortes150 ft
- Oak Harbor140 ft
- Marietta-Alderwood130 ft
- Roche Harbor120 ft
- Point Roberts110 ft
- Ferndale98 ft
- Friday Harbor95 ft
- Birch Bay49 ft
- Custer45 ft
- Whidbey Island Station21 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington536th highest of 639
- Towns in San Juan Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lookout Mountain, Whatcom County2,670 ft
- Mount Constitution2,399 ft
- Chuckanut Mountain2,300 ft
- Lummi Peak1,690 ft
- Turtleback Mountain1,520 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.
- Roche Harbor 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.