Big Horn County, WY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,170 ft 4,015 m10,780 ft 3,285 m9,590 ft 2,925 m7,200 ft 2,195 m4,820 ft 1,470 m3,630 ft 1,105 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Big Horn County averages about 5,410 ft (1,650 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,630 ft on the northwest side to 13,167 ft on Cloud Peak.
Average elevation
5,410 ft 1,650 m
all land inside the county
Highest
13,167 ft 4,013 m
on Cloud Peak
Lowest
3,630 ft 1,105 m
on the northwest side
Big Horn County spans about 9,540 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 5,410 ft1,650 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Cloud Peak (NGS survey height) | 13,167 ft4,013 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,630 ft1,105 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
37 mi west to east through Lovell.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wyoming, United States
- Population
- 12,084 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,137.0 sq mi + 21.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.9 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Middle Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Park County7,520 ft
- Johnson County5,570 ft
- Carbon County, MT5,560 ft
- Big Horn County5,410 ft
- Washakie County5,240 ft
- Sheridan County5,150 ft
- Big Horn County, MT3,980 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wyoming15th highest of 23
- Counties in the United States147th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cloud Peak13,167 ft
- Black Tooth Mountain12,940 ft
- Mather Peaks12,340 ft
- Elk Mountain, Big Horn County11,300 ft
- Hunt Mountain10,169 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.