Cave Junction, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,520 ft 460 m1,450 ft 445 m1,420 ft 435 m1,360 ft 415 m1,300 ft 395 m1,260 ft 385 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
Cave Junction sits at about 1,350 ft (410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,350 ft 410 m
most residents: 1,310–1,390 ft
Lowest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the west side
Highest
1,520 ft 460 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,340 ft 410 m
all land inside city limits
Cave Junction spans about 260 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 | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,520 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cave Junction | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Airport (3S4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi southwest of the city limits | 1,394 ft425 m |
| Average of all land | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Nearest peak Eight Dollar Mountain, 5.2 mi north of the city limits | 4,010 ft1,220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Josephine County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 2,092 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,162 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1629° N, 123.6481° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Rogue River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Illinois Valley (3S4) 1,394 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97523
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Takilma1,720 ft
- Williams1,530 ft
- O'Brien1,470 ft
- Selma1,360 ft
- Cave Junction1,350 ft
- Kerby1,270 ft
- New Hope1,170 ft
- Merlin980 ft
- Grants Pass950 ft
- Redwood920 ft
- Gasquet, CA380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon142nd highest of 425
- Towns in Josephine County5th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Little Grayback Peak5,460 ft
- Pearsoll Peak5,108 ft
- Fiddler Mountain4,910 ft
- Nihwik Mountain4,690 ft
- Eight Dollar Mountain4,010 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.