Rhododendron, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,810 ft 855 m2,450 ft 750 m2,280 ft 695 m1,920 ft 585 m1,570 ft 475 m1,390 ft 425 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rhododendron sits at about 1,630 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,630 ft 495 m
most residents: 1,450–1,960 ft
Lowest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,810 ft 855 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,960 ft 600 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rhododendron spans about 1,420 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 | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rhododendron | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Average of all land | 1,960 ft600 m |
| Nearest peak Devils Peak, Clackamas County, 1.9 mi south of the CDP boundary | 5,050 ft1,540 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 262 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi
- Density
- 67 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3296° N, 121.9112° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Sandy River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 97049
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Government Camp3,930 ft
- Parkdale1,740 ft
- Rhododendron1,630 ft
- Mount Hood1,530 ft
- Mount Hood Villages1,260 ft
- Sandy950 ft
- Boring550 ft
- Orient530 ft
- Estacada530 ft
- Cascade Locks180 ft
- North Bonneville, WA45 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon121st highest of 425
- Towns in Clackamas County2nd highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Hood11,250 ft
- Frog Lake Buttes5,340 ft
- Tom Dick and Harry Mountain5,060 ft
- Devils Peak, Clackamas County5,050 ft
- Lost Lake Butte4,460 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Rhododendron is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.