South Creek, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m630 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m520 ft 160 m450 ft 135 m410 ft 125 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
South Creek sits at about 500 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 150 m
most residents: 430–630 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the northwest side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the east side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Creek spans about 290 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 | 500 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (PLU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 538 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the middle of South Creek.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 2,519 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.7 sq mi
- Density
- 328 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.9995° N, 122.3963° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Pierce County/Thun Field (PLU) 538 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 98338 98387 98580
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kapowsin760 ft
- Clear Lake730 ft
- Graham560 ft
- South Creek500 ft
- Elk Plain470 ft
- Summit View460 ft
- Frederickson450 ft
- Clover Creek420 ft
- Spanaway380 ft
- Roy340 ft
- McKenna310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington269th highest of 639
- Towns in Pierce County20th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Rainier14,410 ft
- Bearhead Mountain6,093 ft
- Mount Wow6,030 ft
- Griffin Mountain5,240 ft
- Storm King Mountain, Lewis County4,740 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.
- South Creek 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.