Metolius, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,580 ft 785 m2,560 ft 780 m2,550 ft 775 m2,530 ft 770 m2,510 ft 765 m2,500 ft 760 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Metolius sits at about 2,540 ft (775 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,540 ft 775 m
most residents: 2,510–2,560 ft
Lowest
2,500 ft 760 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,580 ft 785 m
on the east side
Average
2,530 ft 770 m
all land inside city limits
Metolius spans about 80 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 | 2,540 ft775 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 2,580 ft785 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,500 ft760 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Metolius | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Airport (S33) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi north of the city limits | 2,438 ft743 m |
| Average of all land | 2,530 ft770 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 1,028 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,151 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5865° N, 121.1784° 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
- Camp Sherman3,010 ft
- Redmond3,000 ft
- Prineville2,880 ft
- Terrebonne2,860 ft
- Crooked River Ranch2,760 ft
- Culver2,650 ft
- Metolius2,540 ft
- Madras2,310 ft
- Warm Springs1,720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon89th highest of 425
- Towns in Jefferson County4th 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.