Redmond, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,240 ft 990 m3,150 ft 960 m3,100 ft 945 m3,010 ft 915 m2,910 ft 890 m2,860 ft 875 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Redmond sits at about 3,000 ft (915 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,000 ft 915 m
most residents: 2,970–3,080 ft
Lowest
2,860 ft 875 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,240 ft 990 m
on Forked Horn Butte
Average
3,040 ft 925 m
all land inside city limits
Redmond spans about 380 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 | 3,000 ft915 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Forked Horn Butte | 3,240 ft990 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,860 ft875 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Redmond | 3,000 ft915 m |
| Airport (RDM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 3,082 ft939 m |
| Average of all land | 3,040 ft925 m |
| Nearest peak Gray Butte, 8.1 mi north of the city limits (NGS survey) | 5,107 ft1,557 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,000 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.4 °F96.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
90% of sea level
26.8 inHg (90.8 kPa): each breath holds 10% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.8% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 37,626 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,987 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2726° N, 121.1739° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Deschutes River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Roberts Field/Redmond Municipal (RDM) 3,082 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97756
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bend3,690 ft
- Tumalo3,190 ft
- Sisters3,190 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
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon65th highest of 425
- Towns in Deschutes County13th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Butte, Jefferson County6,440 ft
- West Butte5,850 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).
- 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, 2,860 ft at 44.3035° N, 121.1904° 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.