Philomath, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m450 ft 135 m410 ft 125 m350 ft 105 m280 ft 85 m250 ft 75 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
Philomath sits at about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
280 ft 85 m
most residents: 270–380 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the south side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
at the foot of the Cardwell Hills
Average
300 ft 90 m
all land inside city limits
Philomath spans about 260 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 | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Cardwell Hills | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Philomath | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (CVO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi southeast of the city limits | 250 ft76 m |
| Average of all land | 300 ft90 m |
| Nearest peak Marys Peak, 8.7 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 4,102 ft1,250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Benton County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 5,795 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,800 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5401° N, 123.3676° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Willamette River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Corvallis Municipal (CVO) 250 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97370
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summit770 ft
- Blodgett690 ft
- Bellfountain320 ft
- Kings Valley320 ft
- Philomath280 ft
- Adair Village280 ft
- Shedd270 ft
- Peoria260 ft
- Tangent250 ft
- Corvallis240 ft
- Albany230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon269th highest of 425
- Towns in Benton County8th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Marys Peak4,102 ft
- Grass Mountain3,610 ft
- Old Blue Mountain3,300 ft
- Green Peak2,720 ft
- Flat Mountain2,710 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.