Oregon City, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m420 ft 130 m350 ft 105 m210 ft 65 m77 ft 23 m8 ft 3 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
Oregon City sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 210–470 ft
Lowest
8 ft 3 m
on the north side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the northeast side
Average
350 ft 105 m
all land inside city limits
Oregon City spans about 552 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 8 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oregon City | 100 ft30 m |
| Average of all land | 350 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 38,327 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,810 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3573° N, 122.6068° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Willamette River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 97045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Beavercreek540 ft
- Oregon City440 ft
- West Linn420 ft
- Dunthorpe370 ft
- Stafford340 ft
- Lake Oswego280 ft
- Oak Grove180 ft
- Oatfield150 ft
- Johnson City120 ft
- Jennings Lodge110 ft
- Gladstone100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon225th highest of 425
- Towns in Clackamas County11th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- East Mountain5,290 ft
- Fish Creek Mountain5,020 ft
- Mount Mitchell5,010 ft
- Oak Grove Butte4,610 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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.