Basin, WY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,100 ft 1,250 m4,030 ft 1,230 m4,000 ft 1,220 m3,930 ft 1,200 m3,860 ft 1,175 m3,830 ft 1,165 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Basin sits at about 3,880 ft (1,185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,880 ft 1,185 m
most residents: 3,870–3,930 ft
Lowest
3,830 ft 1,165 m
on the northeast side
Highest
4,100 ft 1,250 m
on the west side
Average
3,920 ft 1,195 m
all land inside town limits
Basin spans about 270 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 | 3,880 ft1,185 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 4,100 ft1,250 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 3,830 ft1,165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Basin | 3,870 ft1,180 m |
| Average of all land | 3,920 ft1,195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,880 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.8 °F96.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
26.0 inHg (87.9 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States
- Population
- 1,337 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 566 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3800° N, 108.0390° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Middle Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Bighorn River → Yellowstone River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 82410
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hyattville4,470 ft
- Burlington4,440 ft
- Ten Sleep4,430 ft
- Kirby4,290 ft
- Shell4,210 ft
- Worland4,070 ft
- Byron4,030 ft
- Manderson3,900 ft
- Basin3,880 ft
- Lovell3,840 ft
- Greybull3,790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wyoming198th highest of 205
- Towns in Big Horn County9th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cloud Peak13,167 ft
- Mather Peaks12,340 ft
- Hunt Mountain10,169 ft
- Dry Fork Ridge8,540 ft
- McCullough Peaks6,557 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.