Ruston, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
210 ft 65 m150 ft 45 m130 ft 40 m77 ft 24 m26 ft 8 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Ruston sits at about 130 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
130 ft 40 m
most residents: 100–180 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Salish Sea
Highest
210 ft 65 m
on the southwest side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside city limits
Ruston spans about 210 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 | 130 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 210 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Salish Sea | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ruston | 54 ft16 m |
| Airport (SEA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi northeast of the city limits | 432 ft132 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 1,048 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 4,094 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.2993° N, 122.5082° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) 432 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98407
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tacoma340 ft
- University Place310 ft
- Canterwood300 ft
- Fircrest300 ft
- Gig Harbor260 ft
- Artondale240 ft
- Wollochet240 ft
- Dash Point230 ft
- Fox Island180 ft
- Ruston130 ft
- Browns Point93 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington528th highest of 639
- Towns in Pierce County64th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tiger Mountain3,004 ft
- Taylor Mountain2,610 ft
- Dow Mountain2,520 ft
- Squak Mountain2,020 ft
- Gold Mountain, Kitsap County1,760 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, −3 ft at 47.3024° N, 122.5088° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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 and Watershed Boundary Dataset; 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.