Jefferson County, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,500 ft 3,200 m8,190 ft 2,500 m7,040 ft 2,145 m4,740 ft 1,445 m2,430 ft 740 m1,280 ft 390 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jefferson County averages about 3,280 ft (1,000 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,280 ft on the north side to 10,500 ft on Mount Jefferson.
Average elevation
3,280 ft 1,000 m
all land inside the county
Highest
10,500 ft 3,200 m
on Mount Jefferson
Lowest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the north side
Jefferson County spans about 9,220 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 3,280 ft1,000 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Jefferson (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 10,500 ft3,200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
70 mi west to east through Madras.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Oregon, United States
- Population
- 25,536 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,781.7 sq mi + 10.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform regions
- Columbia Plateau 72%, Cascade-sierra Mountains 28%
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Deschutes County4,570 ft
- Crook County4,350 ft
- Wheeler County3,710 ft
- Jefferson County3,280 ft
- Wasco County2,520 ft
- Linn County2,070 ft
- Marion County1,590 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Oregon12th highest of 36
- Counties in the United States342nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Jefferson10,500 ft
- Bald Peter6,578 ft
- Black Butte6,440 ft
- Green Ridge5,140 ft
- Gray Butte5,107 ft
All 6 towns in Jefferson County by typical elevation
- Camp Sherman3,010 ft
- Crooked River Ranch2,760 ft
- Culver2,650 ft
- Metolius2,540 ft
- Madras2,310 ft
- Warm Springs1,720 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.