Gresham, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m770 ft 235 m650 ft 195 m390 ft 120 m140 ft 40 m9 ft 3 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
Gresham sits at about 330 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
330 ft 100 m
most residents: 250–480 ft
Lowest
9 ft 3 m
on the north side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the south side
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside city limits
Gresham spans about 1,021 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 | 330 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 9 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gresham | 320 ft95 m |
| Airport (PDX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi northwest of the city limits | 31 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 111,507 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,732 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4982° N, 122.4315° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Portland International (PDX) 31 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 97030 97080 97230 97233
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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
- Camas, WA370 ft
- Gresham330 ft
- Troutdale270 ft
- Wood Village170 ft
- Maywood Park160 ft
- Fairview140 ft
- Washougal, WA96 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon250th highest of 425
- Towns in Multnomah County3rd highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tom Dick and Harry Mountain5,060 ft
- Devils Peak, Clackamas County5,050 ft
- Fish Creek Mountain5,020 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 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. All public domain.