North Plains, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
220 ft 65 m210 ft 65 m200 ft 60 m180 ft 55 m170 ft 50 m160 ft 50 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
North Plains sits at about 190 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
190 ft 55 m
most residents: 180–210 ft
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
near the middle
Highest
220 ft 65 m
at the foot of the Tualatin Mountains
Average
190 ft 60 m
all land inside city limits
North Plains spans about 60 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 | 190 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Tualatin Mountains | 220 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 160 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Plains | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (HIO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi southeast of the city limits | 208 ft63 m |
| Average of all land | 190 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Washington County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 3,424 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3,141 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.5971° N, 122.9934° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Tualatin River → Willamette River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Portland-Hillsboro (HIO) 208 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97133
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bethany300 ft
- Oak Hills250 ft
- Rockcreek230 ft
- Marlene Village220 ft
- Banks210 ft
- Aloha200 ft
- Dilley200 ft
- Hillsboro190 ft
- North Plains190 ft
- Forest Grove180 ft
- Cornelius180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon321st highest of 425
- Towns in Washington County24th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rogers Peak3,700 ft
- Trask Mountain3,426 ft
- Sheridan Peak3,080 ft
- Green Mountain, Washington County2,220 ft
- Bald Peak1,640 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 160 ft at 45.5904° N, 122.9935° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.