Madras, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,680 ft 815 m2,570 ft 780 m2,510 ft 765 m2,400 ft 730 m2,290 ft 700 m2,230 ft 680 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
Madras sits at about 2,310 ft (705 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,310 ft 705 m
most residents: 2,250–2,360 ft
Lowest
2,230 ft 680 m
near the middle
Highest
2,680 ft 815 m
on the east side
Average
2,390 ft 730 m
all land inside city limits
Madras spans about 450 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 | 2,310 ft705 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 2,680 ft815 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 2,230 ft680 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Madras | 2,250 ft685 m |
| Airport (S33) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,438 ft743 m |
| Average of all land | 2,390 ft730 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 7,764 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.2 sq mi
- Density
- 951 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6335° N, 121.1295° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Deschutes River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Madras Municipal (S33) 2,438 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97741
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ochoco West3,160 ft
- Eagle Crest3,060 ft
- Redmond3,000 ft
- Prineville2,880 ft
- Terrebonne2,860 ft
- Crooked River Ranch2,760 ft
- Antelope2,670 ft
- Culver2,650 ft
- Metolius2,540 ft
- Madras2,310 ft
- Warm Springs1,720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon92nd highest of 425
- Towns in Jefferson County5th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Peter6,578 ft
- Grizzly Mountain, Crook County5,630 ft
- Green Ridge5,140 ft
- Gray Butte5,107 ft
- Eagle Butte3,178 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.