Damascus, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m870 ft 265 m740 ft 225 m470 ft 145 m210 ft 65 m78 ft 24 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
Damascus sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 270–680 ft
Lowest
78 ft 24 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the north side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Damascus spans about 1,052 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 78 ft24 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Damascus | 530 ft160 m |
| Airport (PDX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 31 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 10,516 2020 Census
- Land area
- 17.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 606 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4176° N, 122.4590° 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
- 97089
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Boring550 ft
- Damascus540 ft
- Orient530 ft
- Happy Valley510 ft
- Oregon City440 ft
- West Linn420 ft
- Gresham330 ft
- Oatfield150 ft
- Johnson City120 ft
- Jennings Lodge110 ft
- Gladstone100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon199th highest of 425
- Towns in Clackamas County6th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Devils Peak, Clackamas County5,050 ft
- Fish Creek Mountain5,020 ft
- Mount Mitchell5,010 ft
- Lost Lake Butte4,460 ft
- Bald Peak1,640 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.
- Damascus 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.