Adams, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,590 ft 485 m1,570 ft 480 m1,560 ft 475 m1,530 ft 470 m1,510 ft 460 m1,500 ft 455 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Adams sits at about 1,530 ft (465 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,530 ft 465 m
most residents: 1,520–1,570 ft
Lowest
1,500 ft 455 m
on the south side
Highest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the west side
Average
1,540 ft 470 m
all land inside city limits
Adams spans about 90 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 | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Adams | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Airport (PDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi west of the city limits | 1,494 ft455 m |
| Average of all land | 1,540 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 389 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,090 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.7674° N, 118.5625° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Umatilla River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Eastern Oregon Regional at Pendleton (PDT) 1,494 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97810
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Weston1,870 ft
- Helix1,760 ft
- Athena1,740 ft
- Adams1,530 ft
- Tutuilla1,430 ft
- Cayuse1,420 ft
- Kirkpatrick1,360 ft
- Mission1,260 ft
- Gopher Flats1,250 ft
- Riverside1,230 ft
- Pendleton1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon126th highest of 425
- Towns in Umatilla County8th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tower Mountain6,855 ft
- Mount Emily, Union County6,114 ft
- Johnson Rock5,730 ft
- Mount Harris5,361 ft
- Craig Mountain5,007 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.