Sherman County, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,010 ft 915 m2,290 ft 700 m1,940 ft 590 m1,230 ft 375 m520 ft 160 m160 ft 50 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sherman County averages about 1,850 ft (565 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 160 ft on the northwest side to 3,010 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
1,850 ft 565 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,010 ft 915 m
on the south side
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the northwest side
Sherman County spans about 2,850 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 3,010 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
44 mi south to north through Wasco.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Oregon, United States
- Population
- 2,002 2024 est.
- Land area
- 823.6 sq mi + 7.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.4 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wasco County2,520 ft
- Klickitat County, WA2,070 ft
- Gilliam County1,990 ft
- Sherman County1,850 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Oregon24th highest of 36
- Counties in the United States672nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wolf Mountain, Sherman County2,640 ft
- Rose Hill, Sherman County2,150 ft
- Beavertail Butte1,690 ft
- Gordon Butte, Sherman County1,627 ft
- Matties Hump880 ft
All 5 towns in Sherman County by typical elevation
- Grass Valley2,270 ft
- Moro1,870 ft
- Wasco1,290 ft
- Biggs Junction360 ft
- Rufus240 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 160 ft at 45.6810° N, 120.7840° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.