Josephine County, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,060 ft 2,150 m5,340 ft 1,625 m4,480 ft 1,365 m2,760 ft 840 m1,030 ft 315 m170 ft 55 m
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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
Josephine County averages about 2,430 ft (740 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 170 ft on the west side to 7,059 ft on Grayback Mountain.
Average elevation
2,430 ft 740 m
all land inside the county
Highest
7,059 ft 2,152 m
on Grayback Mountain
Lowest
170 ft 55 m
on the west side
Josephine County spans about 6,890 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 | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Grayback Mountain (NGS survey height) | 7,059 ft2,152 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 170 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
50 mi south to north through Grants Pass.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Oregon, United States
- Population
- 88,276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,638.6 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 54 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Siskiyou County, CA4,260 ft
- Jackson County3,170 ft
- Josephine County2,430 ft
- Del Norte County, CA2,150 ft
- Douglas County2,130 ft
- Curry County1,640 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Oregon17th highest of 36
- Counties in the United States503rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Grayback Mountain7,059 ft
- Arnold Mountain6,620 ft
- Althouse Mountain6,330 ft
- Little Grayback Peak5,460 ft
- King Mountain5,270 ft
All 10 towns in Josephine County 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
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.