La Pine, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,290 ft 1,310 m4,270 ft 1,300 m4,250 ft 1,295 m4,230 ft 1,290 m4,210 ft 1,280 m4,190 ft 1,280 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 Pine sits at about 4,230 ft (1,290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,230 ft 1,290 m
most residents: 4,220–4,240 ft
Lowest
4,190 ft 1,280 m
on the north side
Highest
4,290 ft 1,310 m
on the east side
Average
4,230 ft 1,290 m
all land inside city limits
La Pine spans about 100 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 | 4,230 ft1,290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 4,290 ft1,310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 4,190 ft1,280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Pine | 4,240 ft1,290 m |
| Average of all land | 4,230 ft1,290 m |
| Nearest peak Gilchrist Butte, 7.6 mi west of the city limits | 5,530 ft1,685 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,230 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.1 °F95.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
86% of sea level
25.6 inHg (86.8 kPa): each breath holds 14% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 2,566 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.1 sq mi
- Density
- 359 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6704° N, 121.5036° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Little Deschutes River → Deschutes River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 97739
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crescent Lake4,740 ft
- Gilchrist4,510 ft
- Crescent4,470 ft
- La Pine4,230 ft
- Sunriver4,190 ft
- Three Rivers4,180 ft
- Deschutes River Woods3,930 ft
- Seventh Mountain3,930 ft
- Tetherow3,820 ft
- Bend3,690 ft
- Tumalo3,190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon21st highest of 425
- Towns in Deschutes Countyhighest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Paulina Peak7,970 ft
- Hamner Butte7,100 ft
- Davis Mountain6,630 ft
- Lookout Mountain, Deschutes County6,220 ft
- Gilchrist Butte5,530 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.