La Grande, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,300 ft 1,005 m3,160 ft 960 m3,090 ft 940 m2,940 ft 895 m2,800 ft 855 m2,730 ft 830 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
La Grande sits at about 2,790 ft (850 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,790 ft 850 m
most residents: 2,760–2,860 ft
Lowest
2,730 ft 830 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,300 ft 1,005 m
at the foot of the Blue Mountains
Average
2,800 ft 855 m
all land inside city limits
La Grande spans about 570 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 | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Blue Mountains | 3,300 ft1,005 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,730 ft830 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Grande | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Airport (LGD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 2,718 ft828 m |
| Average of all land | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Emily, Union County, 6.3 mi north of the city limits (NGS survey) | 6,114 ft1,864 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Union County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 13,058 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,815 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3246° N, 118.0877° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Grande Ronde River → Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- La Grande/union County (LGD) 2,718 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97850
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Meacham3,770 ft
- Haines3,330 ft
- North Powder3,270 ft
- Cove2,940 ft
- La Grande2,790 ft
- Union2,790 ft
- Island City2,740 ft
- Imbler2,730 ft
- Summerville2,710 ft
- Elgin2,700 ft
- McKay1,850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon75th highest of 425
- Towns in Union County3rd highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Emily, Union County6,114 ft
- Johnson Rock5,730 ft
- Clark Mountain5,530 ft
- Mount Harris5,361 ft
- Craig Mountain5,007 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.