Tumwater, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 155 m380 ft 115 m320 ft 95 m190 ft 60 m71 ft 22 m9 ft 3 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Tumwater sits at about 190 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
190 ft 55 m
most residents: 160–300 ft
Lowest
9 ft 3 m
on the northeast side
Highest
500 ft 155 m
on the west side
Average
180 ft 55 m
all land inside city limits
Tumwater spans about 491 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 | 190 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 500 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 9 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tumwater | 170 ft55 m |
| Airport (OLM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 208 ft63 m |
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
| Nearest peak Capitol Peak, Thurston County, 8.0 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,671 ft814 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Thurston County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 27,826 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,568 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.0073° N, 122.9093° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Olympia Regional (OLM) 208 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 98501 98512
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rainier470 ft
- North Yelm300 ft
- Tenino290 ft
- Bucoda250 ft
- DuPont240 ft
- Nisqually Indian Community240 ft
- Anderson Island210 ft
- Lacey210 ft
- Tanglewilde200 ft
- Tumwater190 ft
- Olympia180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington486th highest of 639
- Towns in Thurston County9th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rock Peak3,340 ft
- Capitol Peak, Thurston County2,671 ft
- Dow Mountain2,520 ft
- Walville Peak2,427 ft
- Blue Mountain, Grays Harbor County1,780 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).
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.