Wheeler, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 395 m1,290 ft 395 m1,280 ft 390 m1,270 ft 385 m1,260 ft 385 m1,250 ft 380 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wheeler sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,280 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,260–1,280 ft
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the west side
Highest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the north side
Average
1,270 ft 390 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Wheeler spans about 50 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 | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wheeler | 1,290 ft390 m |
| Airport (MWH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 1,189 ft362 m |
| Average of all land | 1,270 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Grant County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 74 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 335 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1307° N, 119.1720° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Grant County International (MWH) 1,189 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98837
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Krupp1,330 ft
- Ephrata1,320 ft
- Warden1,310 ft
- Wilson Creek1,280 ft
- Wheeler1,280 ft
- Lakeview1,200 ft
- Moses Lake North1,190 ft
- Marine View1,150 ft
- Moses Lake1,100 ft
- Cascade Valley1,100 ft
- Othello1,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington131st highest of 639
- Towns in Grant County11th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Badger Mountain4,240 ft
- Yakima Ridge4,195 ft
- Hog Ranch Buttes4,192 ft
- Chelan Butte3,839 ft
- Lookout3,632 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.
- Wheeler 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.