Selma, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,940 ft 595 m1,780 ft 540 m1,690 ft 515 m1,520 ft 465 m1,350 ft 410 m1,270 ft 385 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
Selma sits at about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,360 ft 415 m
most residents: 1,320–1,500 ft
Lowest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the west side
Highest
1,940 ft 595 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,410 ft 430 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Selma spans about 670 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 | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,940 ft595 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Selma | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Average of all land | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Nearest peak Eight Dollar Mountain, 1.0 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 4,010 ft1,220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Josephine County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 661 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.5 sq mi
- Density
- 102 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2790° N, 123.6159° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Rogue River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 97538
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Takilma1,720 ft
- Williams1,530 ft
- O'Brien1,470 ft
- Selma1,360 ft
- Cave Junction1,350 ft
- Kerby1,270 ft
- New Hope1,170 ft
- Rogue River1,020 ft
- Merlin980 ft
- Grants Pass950 ft
- Redwood920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon137th highest of 425
- Towns in Josephine County4th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Little Grayback Peak5,460 ft
- Fiddler Mountain4,910 ft
- Roundtop Mountain4,750 ft
- Nihwik Mountain4,690 ft
- Eight Dollar Mountain4,010 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.
- Selma 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. All public domain.