Skykomish, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,370 ft 420 m1,260 ft 385 m1,200 ft 365 m1,080 ft 330 m970 ft 295 m910 ft 280 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Skykomish sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 920–950 ft
Lowest
910 ft 280 m
on the west side
Highest
1,370 ft 420 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside town limits
Skykomish spans about 460 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 910 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Skykomish | 940 ft285 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft300 m |
| Nearest peak Baring Mountain, 5.5 mi northwest of the town limits | 6,090 ft1,855 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in King County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 158 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 503 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.7093° N, 121.3601° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- ZIP codes 1
- 98288
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Snoqualmie Pass2,870 ft
- Skykomish930 ft
- Baring780 ft
- Riverpoint720 ft
- Index540 ft
- Riverbend520 ft
- May Creek240 ft
- Gold Bar200 ft
- Startup140 ft
- North Sultan140 ft
- Sultan140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington174th highest of 639
- Towns in King County2nd highest of 62
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Fernow, King County6,140 ft
- Baring Mountain6,090 ft
- Townsend Mountain5,930 ft
- Lennox Mountain5,870 ft
- Crosby Mountain5,480 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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. All public domain.