White Salmon, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m820 ft 250 m700 ft 215 m450 ft 135 m200 ft 60 m79 ft 24 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
White Salmon sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 440–1,030 ft
Lowest
79 ft 24 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
at the foot of the Monte Cristo Range
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside city limits
White Salmon spans about 991 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Monte Cristo Range | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 79 ft24 m |
| Town center USGS map point for White Salmon | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (4S2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 638 ft194 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Klickitat County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 2,605 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,663 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.7276° N, 121.4865° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Ken Jernstedt Airfield (4S2) 638 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98672
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Parkdale, OR1,740 ft
- Mount Hood, OR1,530 ft
- Rowena, OR740 ft
- Odell, OR740 ft
- White Salmon660 ft
- Carson540 ft
- Hood River, OR470 ft
- Chenoweth, OR370 ft
- Mosier, OR210 ft
- Lyle150 ft
- Bingen130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington228th highest of 639
- Towns in Klickitat County6th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Defiance4,960 ft
- Little Huckleberry Mountain4,780 ft
- Lost Lake Butte4,460 ft
- Augspurger Mountain3,670 ft
- Stacker Butte3,170 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. All public domain.