Tumalo, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,380 ft 1,030 m3,320 ft 1,010 m3,290 ft 1,000 m3,220 ft 985 m3,160 ft 965 m3,130 ft 955 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
Tumalo sits at about 3,190 ft (970 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,190 ft 970 m
most residents: 3,160–3,350 ft
Lowest
3,130 ft 955 m
on the north side
Highest
3,380 ft 1,030 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,240 ft 990 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tumalo spans about 250 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 | 3,190 ft970 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 3,380 ft1,030 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 3,130 ft955 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tumalo | 3,180 ft970 m |
| Airport (RDM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 3,082 ft939 m |
| Average of all land | 3,240 ft990 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,190 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.1 °F96.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.6 inHg (90.2 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.6% 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
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 558 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 327 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1498° N, 121.3309° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Deschutes River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Roberts Fld/redmond Municipal (RDM) 3,082 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97703
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sunriver4,190 ft
- Deschutes River Woods3,930 ft
- Seventh Mountain3,930 ft
- Tetherow3,820 ft
- Bend3,690 ft
- Tumalo3,190 ft
- Sisters3,190 ft
- Pronghorn3,190 ft
- Eagle Crest3,060 ft
- Redmond3,000 ft
- Terrebonne2,860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon58th highest of 425
- Towns in Deschutes County9th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Sister10,350 ft
- Mount Bachelor9,070 ft
- Broken Top9,040 ft
- Powell Buttes5,233 ft
- Gray Butte5,107 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).
- 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.
- Tumalo 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.