Pilot Rock, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,790 ft 545 m1,750 ft 535 m1,670 ft 510 m1,590 ft 485 m1,550 ft 475 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
Pilot Rock sits at about 1,700 ft (520 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,700 ft 520 m
most residents: 1,640–1,730 ft
Lowest
1,550 ft 475 m
on the north side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the west side
Average
1,670 ft 510 m
all land inside city limits
Pilot Rock spans about 320 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 | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,550 ft475 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pilot Rock | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Airport (PDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi north of the city limits | 1,494 ft455 m |
| Average of all land | 1,670 ft510 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 1,313 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 890 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4832° N, 118.8300° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Eastern Oregon Regional at Pendleton (PDT) 1,494 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97868
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Meacham3,770 ft
- McKay1,850 ft
- Pilot Rock1,700 ft
- Tutuilla1,430 ft
- Cayuse1,420 ft
- Kirkpatrick1,360 ft
- Mission1,260 ft
- Gopher Flats1,250 ft
- Riverside1,230 ft
- Green Meadows1,170 ft
- Pendleton1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon118th highest of 425
- Towns in Umatilla County7th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Desolation Butte7,030 ft
- Tower Mountain6,855 ft
- Mount Emily, Union County6,114 ft
- Black Mountain, Morrow County5,930 ft
- Johnson Rock5,730 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.