Sudden Valley, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 395 m1,050 ft 320 m930 ft 285 m680 ft 205 m430 ft 130 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
Sudden Valley sits at about 520 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 155 m
most residents: 370–700 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the east side
Highest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sudden Valley spans about 990 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 | 520 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sudden Valley | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (BLI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 171 ft52 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
| Nearest peak Lookout Mountain, Whatcom County, 1.2 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,670 ft815 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Whatcom County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 6,354 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.3 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,485 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.7229° N, 122.3466° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Bellingham International (BLI) 171 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98229
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sudden Valley520 ft
- Geneva440 ft
- Acme330 ft
- Alger290 ft
- Deming200 ft
- Bellingham170 ft
- Marietta-Alderwood130 ft
- Ferndale98 ft
- Everson89 ft
- Bow13 ft
- Edison7 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington259th highest of 639
- Towns in Whatcom County3rd highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Anderson Mountain3,370 ft
- Lookout Mountain, Whatcom County2,670 ft
- Blue Mountain, Whatcom County2,440 ft
- Chuckanut Mountain2,300 ft
- Squalicum Mountain1,540 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.
- Sudden Valley 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. All public domain.