Boring, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m860 ft 260 m780 ft 240 m640 ft 195 m490 ft 150 m410 ft 125 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Boring sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 520–920 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the northwest side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Boring spans about 600 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Boring | 500 ft150 m |
| Airport (PDX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 31 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 1,931 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.3 sq mi
- Density
- 448 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4298° N, 122.3748° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Willamette River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Portland International (PDX) 31 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97009
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sandy950 ft
- Boring550 ft
- Damascus540 ft
- Orient530 ft
- Estacada530 ft
- Happy Valley510 ft
- Gresham330 ft
- Troutdale270 ft
- Wood Village170 ft
- Fairview140 ft
- Johnson City120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon195th highest of 425
- Towns in Clackamas County5th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tom Dick and Harry Mountain5,060 ft
- Devils Peak, Clackamas County5,050 ft
- Fish Creek Mountain5,020 ft
- Mount Mitchell5,010 ft
- Lost Lake Butte4,460 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Boring is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.