Mount Vernon, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,310 ft 1,010 m3,190 ft 975 m3,130 ft 955 m3,010 ft 920 m2,890 ft 880 m2,830 ft 865 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
Mount Vernon sits at about 2,860 ft (870 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,860 ft 870 m
most residents: 2,850–3,010 ft
Lowest
2,830 ft 865 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,310 ft 1,010 m
at the foot of the Aldrich Mountains
Average
2,910 ft 885 m
all land inside city limits
Mount Vernon spans about 480 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 | 2,860 ft870 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Aldrich Mountains | 3,310 ft1,010 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 2,830 ft865 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Vernon | 2,870 ft875 m |
| Airport (GCD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.0 mi east of the city limits | 3,703 ft1,129 m |
| Average of all land | 2,910 ft885 m |
| Nearest peak Ingle Mountain, 6.5 mi south of the city limits | 6,760 ft2,060 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grant County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 547 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 801 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.4177° N, 119.1136° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- John Day River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Grant County Regional/Ogilvie Field (GCD) 3,703 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97865
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Seneca4,680 ft
- Granite4,660 ft
- Unity3,980 ft
- Long Creek3,760 ft
- Prairie City3,560 ft
- Canyon City3,210 ft
- John Day3,080 ft
- Mount Vernon2,860 ft
- Dayville2,400 ft
- Monument2,010 ft
- Spray1,780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon74th highest of 425
- Towns in Grant County7th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fields Peak7,367 ft
- Aldrich Mountain6,995 ft
- Ingle Mountain6,760 ft
- Black Butte, Grant County6,241 ft
- Lake Butte6,240 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.