Baker City, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,470 ft 1,365 m4,210 ft 1,280 m4,070 ft 1,240 m3,810 ft 1,160 m3,540 ft 1,080 m3,410 ft 1,040 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
Baker City sits at about 3,440 ft (1,050 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,440 ft 1,050 m
most residents: 3,420–3,470 ft
Lowest
3,410 ft 1,040 m
on the northwest side
Highest
4,470 ft 1,365 m
at the foot of the Virtue Hills
Average
3,510 ft 1,070 m
all land inside city limits
Baker City spans about 1,060 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 | 3,440 ft1,050 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Virtue Hills | 4,470 ft1,365 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 3,410 ft1,040 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Baker City | 3,450 ft1,050 m |
| Airport (BKE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi north of the city limits | 3,373 ft1,028 m |
| Average of all land | 3,510 ft1,070 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,440 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.6 °F96.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.4 inHg (89.4 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Baker County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 10,135 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,405 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7749° N, 117.8344° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Powder River → Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Baker City Municipal (BKE) 3,373 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97814
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon50th highest of 425
- Towns in Baker County3rd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Mountain8,909 ft
- Little Lookout Mountain6,670 ft
- Black Mountain, Baker County6,650 ft
- Pedro Mountain6,450 ft
- Clark Mountain5,530 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.