Waterville, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,710 ft 825 m2,680 ft 815 m2,660 ft 810 m2,630 ft 800 m2,600 ft 790 m2,580 ft 785 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
Waterville sits at about 2,630 ft (800 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,630 ft 800 m
most residents: 2,610–2,650 ft
Lowest
2,580 ft 785 m
on the south side
Highest
2,710 ft 825 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,630 ft 800 m
all land inside town limits
Waterville spans about 130 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 | 2,630 ft800 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 2,710 ft825 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 2,580 ft785 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waterville | 2,620 ft800 m |
| Average of all land | 2,630 ft800 m |
| Nearest peak Badger Mountain, 6.9 mi southwest of the town limits | 4,240 ft1,295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Douglas County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 1,148 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,327 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.6471° N, 120.0712° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Douglas Creek → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 98858
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waterville2,630 ft
- Chelan1,210 ft
- Manson1,200 ft
- Sunnyslope970 ft
- East Wenatchee870 ft
- Chelan Falls830 ft
- Wenatchee800 ft
- Cashmere800 ft
- Entiat800 ft
- South Wenatchee760 ft
- Rock Island650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington6th highest of 639
- Towns in Douglas Countyhighest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chumstick Mountain5,760 ft
- Burch Mountain4,940 ft
- Badger Mountain4,240 ft
- Chelan Butte3,839 ft
- Bear Mountain, Chelan County3,600 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.