Merlin, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m980 ft 300 m900 ft 275 m850 ft 260 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Merlin sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 890–1,040 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the west side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the south side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Merlin spans about 350 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Merlin | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (3S8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,130 ft344 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
| Nearest peak Walker Mountain, Josephine County, 3.7 mi east of the CDP boundary | 3,870 ft1,180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Josephine County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 1,690 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi
- Density
- 407 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5173° N, 123.4198° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Rogue River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Grants Pass (3S8) 1,130 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 97526 97532
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Williams1,530 ft
- Foots Creek1,470 ft
- Glendale1,440 ft
- Selma1,360 ft
- Wimer1,200 ft
- New Hope1,170 ft
- Gold Hill1,090 ft
- Rogue River1,020 ft
- Merlin980 ft
- Grants Pass950 ft
- Redwood920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon163rd highest of 425
- Towns in Josephine County8th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Mountain, Josephine County4,410 ft
- Mount Peavine4,050 ft
- Walker Mountain, Josephine County3,870 ft
- Sexton Mountain3,838 ft
- Maloney Peak3,030 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Merlin is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.