Medford, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,020 ft 920 m2,580 ft 785 m2,360 ft 720 m1,930 ft 585 m1,490 ft 455 m1,270 ft 385 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Medford sits at about 1,410 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,410 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,330–1,550 ft
Lowest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the north side
Highest
3,020 ft 920 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,480 ft 450 m
all land inside city limits
Medford spans about 1,750 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 | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,020 ft920 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Medford | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Airport (MFR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,335 ft407 m |
| Average of all land | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Nearest peak Anderson Butte, 6.3 mi south of the city limits | 5,180 ft1,580 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jackson County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 86,301 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,992 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3265° N, 122.8756° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Rogue River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Rogue Valley Intl/medford (MFR) 1,335 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 97501 97502 97504
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ashland1,980 ft
- Talent1,630 ft
- Ruch1,580 ft
- Jacksonville1,560 ft
- Phoenix1,520 ft
- Foots Creek1,470 ft
- Medford1,410 ft
- White City1,350 ft
- Eagle Point1,330 ft
- Central Point1,270 ft
- Gold Hill1,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon136th highest of 425
- Towns in Jackson County11th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grizzly Peak, Jackson County5,910 ft
- Bald Mountain, Jackson County5,620 ft
- Anderson Butte5,180 ft
- Mount Isabelle4,490 ft
- Timber Mountain4,420 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. All public domain.