Spanaway, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m330 ft 100 m310 ft 95 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
Spanaway sits at about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
380 ft 115 m
most residents: 360–440 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the northwest side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Average
380 ft 115 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Spanaway spans about 200 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Spanaway | 370 ft115 m |
| Airport (PLU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi east of the CDP boundary | 538 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 380 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 35,476 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.7 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,057 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1040° N, 122.4346° 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 2
- 98387 98445
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elk Plain470 ft
- Summit View460 ft
- Frederickson450 ft
- Summit430 ft
- Clover Creek420 ft
- Midland410 ft
- Spanaway380 ft
- Waller340 ft
- Parkland320 ft
- McChord AFB270 ft
- Lakewood260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington329th highest of 639
- Towns in Pierce County28th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bearhead Mountain6,093 ft
- Mount Wow6,030 ft
- Storm King Mountain, Lewis County4,740 ft
- Taylor Mountain2,610 ft
- Squak Mountain2,020 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).
- 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 47.1160° N, 122.4626° 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.
- Spanaway 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.