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Cle Elum Washington Map

Explore Cle Elum, Washington, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Cle Elum, Washington

How to Use This Cle Elum, Washington Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Cle Elum, Washington. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Washington or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Cle Elum.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Cle Elum
State	Washington (WA)
County	Kittitas County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	47.194638
Longitude	-120.952843
Population	2,157
Density	185.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	98922
Area Code	509
County Seat	Ellensburg
School District	Cle Elum-Roslyn School District

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About Cle Elum, Washington

Cle Elum is a locality in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,157. The population density is 185.4 people per km². Cle Elum is located at 47.1946°N, 120.9528°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. Cle Elum is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 98922.

Cle Elum asserts itself upon the landscape as a rugged transition point where the dense, shadowed timber of the high country begins to fray into the drier, open expanses of the interior. It lies 23.0 miles northwest of Ellensburg, WA (from Ellensburg, WA: bearing 307°T), and is situated 33.4 miles west-southwest of Wenatchee. Crystal Creek carves a persistent path past the foundations of the settlement, its waters moving with a cold, clear urgency that mirrors the crispness of the air. To the west, the jagged silhouette of the Cascade Range anchors the horizon, while the nearby slopes of Greens Canyon provide a stark, vertical counterpoint to the flatter, brush-strewn plains. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, especially as it wanes and catches the dust kicked up from the unpaved edges of Wye Park, casting long, lean shadows that stretch across the ground like cooling iron.

Coal dust and the echo of the steam whistle once defined the pulse of Cle Elum, back when the dark veins of the earth were the primary currency of its people. Today, the economy leans into the quiet persistence of the mountains, catering to those who seek the solace of the North Fork Trail or the stillness of Bullfrog Pond. The character of the place remains etched in the sturdy, unadorned storefronts that hold the memory of a harder, more industrial age, now repurposed to serve the traveler passing through the interior corridor. Life here moves with the deliberate, measured pace of a high-altitude season, where the winter snows linger long enough to remind everyone that they reside in the shadow of the peaks, far from the chaotic pull of the lowlands.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Wenatchee National Forest (National Forest) — 0.2 mi, 351° N · 1.8M acres
Douglas A. Munro (Monument) — 0.3 mi, 296° NW
Carpenter Museum (Museum) — 0.6 mi, 070° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 193° S
Iron Horse (State Park) — 0.7 mi, 176° S
Stoves Drug Store (Mus Pharmacy) Historic Marker (Monument) — 0.7 mi, 090° E
Lake Easton (State Park) — 0.7 mi, 189° S
South Cle Elum Rail Yard Interpretive Center (Museum) — 0.8 mi, 191° S
Pardini's Shoe Repair Historic Marker (Monument) — 0.8 mi, 091° E
Telephone Museum (Museum) — 0.8 mi, 090° E
Hanson Ponds (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 108° E
Roslyn Urban Forest (Local Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 319° NW
KBHR Set (Attraction) — 2.7 mi, 316° NW
Yakima River (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 265° W
L.T. Murray Wildlife Area Complex (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 265° W
Number 8 Mine (Historic Ruins) — 3.9 mi, 330° NW
Casland (Historic Ruins) — 5.1 mi, 034° NE
I 90 Lookout (Viewpoint) — 5.4 mi, 221° SW
Hex Mountain Trailhead (Attraction) — 9.5 mi, 315° NW
Snoqualmie National Forest (National Forest) — 10.3 mi, 214° SW · 1.3M acres
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 12.1 mi, 290° W
Alpine Lakes Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 16.1 mi, 007° N · 415k acres
William O. Douglas Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 18.4 mi, 215° SW · 169k acres
Museum of Culture and Environment (Museum) — 23.4 mi, 124° SE
The Ink (Gallery) — 23.4 mi, 126° SE
Blue Bear Puppet Lab (Gallery) — 23.4 mi, 126° SE
Cascade Cradle (Public Artwork) — 23.5 mi, 124° SE
Clymer Museum of Art (Museum) — 23.5 mi, 126° SE
Gallery One (Gallery) — 23.5 mi, 126° SE
Mount Rainier National Park (National Park) — 30.9 mi, 237° SW · 236k acres

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