Prineville, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,530 ft 1,075 m3,350 ft 1,020 m3,270 ft 995 m3,100 ft 945 m2,920 ft 890 m2,840 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
Prineville sits at about 2,880 ft (880 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,880 ft 880 m
most residents: 2,860–2,960 ft
Lowest
2,840 ft 865 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,530 ft 1,075 m
on Barnes Butte
Average
3,070 ft 935 m
all land inside city limits
Prineville spans about 690 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 | 2,880 ft880 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Barnes Butte | 3,530 ft1,075 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prineville | 2,880 ft880 m |
| Airport (S39) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 3,251 ft991 m |
| Average of all land | 3,070 ft935 m |
| Nearest peak Powell Buttes, 6.0 mi southwest of the city limits (NGS survey) | 5,233 ft1,595 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Crook County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 11,917 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.8 sq mi
- Density
- 929 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2998° N, 120.8345° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Crooked River → Deschutes River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Prineville (S39) 3,251 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 97753 97754
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Prineville Lake Acres3,780 ft
- Juniper Canyon3,690 ft
- Pronghorn3,190 ft
- Ochoco West3,160 ft
- Eagle Crest3,060 ft
- Redmond3,000 ft
- Prineville2,880 ft
- Terrebonne2,860 ft
- Crooked River Ranch2,760 ft
- Culver2,650 ft
- Metolius2,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon71st highest of 425
- Towns in Crook Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- View Point6,250 ft
- Pilot Butte5,778 ft
- Grizzly Mountain, Crook County5,630 ft
- Powell Buttes5,233 ft
- Gray Butte5,107 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.