What's your elevation?

[Heron]

I've seen "where do you live" threads, but how about elevation? My house sits at 4701 feet. Looking out my window today, it looks like the rain turns to snow at about 5000 feet.

***Choice 1 should read "Below Sea Level to 500 ft."***

For Metric users, multiply meters x 3.28 for feet or convert here.

 

[ArNav]

I live just at 16 feet.

 

[Heron]

I just used Google Earth to look up every place I've ever lived. The lowest was 2213 ft. and the highest was 6215.

 

[SteveWY]

6100' where I sit.

I lived at about 300' until I was 20 YOA then moved to Wyoming. I have been at 6000 to 7200 for the past 36 years.

 

[rob74]

Currently 12 feet. The highest I have ever lived is 44 feet. The lowest is 3 feet.

 

[Hunter]

705m for me

 

[Eeyore]

-5 feet. Yes, that is minus; we're below sea level.

 

[Heron]

-5 feet. Yes, that is minus; we're below sea level.

Oops, forgot about you guys being below sea level. Sorry for not giving you a choice in the poll. Are you in reclaimed land or is it dry naturally?

 

[Eeyore]

Oops, forgot about you guys being below sea level. Sorry for not giving you a choice in the poll. Are you in reclaimed land or is it dry naturally?

Half of our country is reclaimed land

We live in a "polder" indeed.

 

[Toothpick]

675ft.

 

[dpm802]

I've never understood why we use "Sea Level" as a standard of measurement, when the sea is not level. It constantly moves up and down, in and out with the tides. So how do you establish where to start measuring from?

 

[mswofford]

My area had a power outage and I just got on. Add me to SteveWY. I live at 7120 feet according to a highway marker at my fence. I guess I'm too late to vote.

 

[SteveWY]

My area had a power outage and I just got on. Add me to SteveWY. I live at 7120 feet according to a highway marker at my fence. I guess I'm too late to vote.

HaHa! I was wondering when you would wander down from the nosebleed section and post!

P.S. I heard all of northern fremont County got hammered with wet snow and outages.

 

[Heron]

I've never understood why we use "Sea Level" as a standard of measurement, when the sea is not level. It constantly moves up and down, in and out with the tides. So how do you establish where to start measuring from?

I'm not sure. Halfway between high tide and low tide, I'd guess. That brings up the interesting matter of calculating the size and boundaries of waterfront property.

 

[the_edski]

Very interesting. Had to look it up! 579 ft

 

[Mick]

600' above sea level

 

[garyg]

261 metres (856 feet) -- validated against 262 metres (859 feet) give or take ...

 

[JSB33]

690 feet on the shore of Lake Erie

 

[Mike H]

My house sits on the side of a hill...

400'

It's a small hill

 

[Chadao]

I live in the Seattle Sea-Mountain-Plex...So sea level to Mt. Ranier. I live on Redmond Ridge, somewhere in between.