Wheeler County, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,880 ft 2,095 m5,440 ft 1,660 m4,720 ft 1,440 m3,290 ft 1,005 m1,860 ft 565 m1,140 ft 345 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
Wheeler County averages about 3,710 ft (1,130 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,140 ft on the northwest side to 6,877 ft on Spanish Peak.
Average elevation
3,710 ft 1,130 m
all land inside the county
Highest
6,877 ft 2,096 m
on Spanish Peak
Lowest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the northwest side
Wheeler County spans about 5,740 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 | 3,710 ft1,130 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Spanish Peak (NGS survey height) | 6,877 ft2,096 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,140 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
43 mi south to north through Fossil.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Oregon, United States
- Population
- 1,456 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,716.0 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.8 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
- Grant County4,700 ft
- Crook County4,350 ft
- Wheeler County3,710 ft
- Jefferson County3,280 ft
- Wasco County2,520 ft
- Morrow County2,350 ft
- Gilliam County1,990 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Oregon11th highest of 36
- Counties in the United States291st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Spanish Peak6,877 ft
- Mount Pisgah6,820 ft
- Windy Point, Wheeler County6,770 ft
- East Point6,620 ft
- Baldy5,900 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.