Ashland, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,550 ft 1,080 m3,080 ft 940 m2,850 ft 870 m2,390 ft 730 m1,930 ft 585 m1,690 ft 515 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ashland sits at about 1,980 ft (605 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,980 ft 605 m
most residents: 1,800–2,210 ft
Lowest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the north side
Highest
3,550 ft 1,080 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,060 ft 630 m
all land inside city limits
Ashland spans about 1,860 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 | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,550 ft1,080 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ashland | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Airport (MFR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,335 ft407 m |
| Average of all land | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Nearest peak Bald Mountain, Jackson County, 4.8 mi southwest of the city limits | 5,620 ft1,715 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jackson County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 20,935 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 3,121 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1946° N, 122.7095° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Bear Creek → Rogue River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Rogue Valley Intl/medford (MFR) 1,335 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97520
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hornbrook, CA2,180 ft
- Ashland1,980 ft
- Talent1,630 ft
- Ruch1,580 ft
- Jacksonville1,560 ft
- Phoenix1,520 ft
- Medford1,410 ft
- White City1,350 ft
- Eagle Point1,330 ft
- Central Point1,270 ft
- Gold Hill1,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon105th highest of 425
- Towns in Jackson County3rd highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Ashland7,490 ft
- Table Mountain, Jackson County6,116 ft
- Grizzly Peak, Jackson County5,910 ft
- Bald Mountain, Jackson County5,620 ft
- Anderson Butte5,180 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.