Wasco County, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,650 ft 1,720 m4,260 ft 1,300 m3,560 ft 1,085 m2,170 ft 660 m780 ft 235 m79 ft 24 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
Wasco County averages about 2,520 ft (765 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 79 ft on the north side to 5,650 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
2,520 ft 765 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,650 ft 1,720 m
on the west side
Lowest
79 ft 24 m
on the north side
Wasco County spans about 5,571 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 | 2,520 ft765 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 5,650 ft1,720 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 79 ft24 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
54 mi south to north through The Dalles.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Oregon, United States
- Population
- 26,507 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,381.1 sq mi + 13.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform regions
- Columbia Plateau 82%, Cascade-sierra Mountains 18%
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wheeler County3,710 ft
- Jefferson County3,280 ft
- Hood River County3,060 ft
- Wasco County2,520 ft
- Clackamas County2,150 ft
- Klickitat County, WA2,070 ft
- Gilliam County1,990 ft
- Sherman County1,850 ft
- Marion County1,590 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Oregon16th highest of 36
- Counties in the United States484th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Wilson5,603 ft
- Badger Butte, Wasco County5,490 ft
- Cinder Cone, Wasco County5,460 ft
- Frog Lake Buttes5,340 ft
- Eagle Butte3,178 ft
All 13 towns in Wasco County by typical elevation
- Shaniko3,330 ft
- Antelope2,670 ft
- Sportsmans Park2,230 ft
- Pine Grove2,200 ft
- Pine Hollow1,890 ft
- Wamic1,770 ft
- Dufur1,360 ft
- Tygh Valley1,350 ft
- Maupin1,070 ft
- Rowena740 ft
- Chenoweth370 ft
- The Dalles240 ft
- Mosier210 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.