Corvallis, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m570 ft 175 m510 ft 155 m390 ft 115 m260 ft 80 m200 ft 60 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Corvallis sits at about 240 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
240 ft 75 m
most residents: 230–380 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
near the middle
Highest
700 ft 215 m
at the foot of the Cardwell Hills
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside city limits
Corvallis spans about 500 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 | 240 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Cardwell Hills | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Corvallis | 230 ft70 m |
| Airport (CVO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi south of the city limits | 250 ft76 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Benton County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 61,993 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,258 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5646° N, 123.2620° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Willamette River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Corvallis Municipal (CVO) 250 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 97330 97331 97333
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Blodgett690 ft
- Kings Valley320 ft
- Philomath280 ft
- Halsey280 ft
- Adair Village280 ft
- Shedd270 ft
- Peoria260 ft
- Tangent250 ft
- Millersburg240 ft
- Corvallis240 ft
- Albany230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon288th highest of 425
- Towns in Benton Countylowest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Marys Peak4,102 ft
- Old Blue Mountain3,300 ft
- Bald Mountain, Polk County3,235 ft
- Green Peak2,720 ft
- Flat Mountain2,710 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 44.5551° N, 123.2662° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.