Vale, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,330 ft 710 m2,300 ft 700 m2,290 ft 700 m2,260 ft 690 m2,240 ft 680 m2,220 ft 680 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Vale sits at about 2,250 ft (685 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,250 ft 685 m
most residents: 2,240–2,260 ft
Lowest
2,220 ft 680 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,330 ft 710 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,250 ft 685 m
all land inside city limits
Vale spans about 110 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 | 2,250 ft685 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,330 ft710 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,220 ft680 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vale | 2,240 ft685 m |
| Airport (S49) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 2,249 ft685 m |
| Average of all land | 2,250 ft685 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Malheur County, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 2,057 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,755 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9821° N, 117.2382° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Miller Memorial Airpark (S49) 2,249 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 97918
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harper2,520 ft
- New Plymouth, ID2,260 ft
- Parma, ID2,260 ft
- Vale2,250 ft
- Adrian2,230 ft
- Fruitland, ID2,220 ft
- Nyssa2,180 ft
- Ontario2,160 ft
- Payette, ID2,150 ft
- Weiser, ID2,130 ft
- Annex2,100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon94th highest of 425
- Towns in Malheur County5th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pedro Mountain6,450 ft
- Freezeout Mountain5,488 ft
- Cow Valley Butte5,400 ft
- Board Corral Mountain4,970 ft
- Grassy Mountain4,530 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).
- 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.
- 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.