Nature · Oregon · summit section · bounded southern view
Mount Hood: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Hood uses an approximately 3,410-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,358 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 3,410 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Oregon · summit section · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 11,187.7 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 3410.0 m at 45.373611°, -121.697222°.
- Local base
- 1051.8 m at 45.393333°, -121.766111°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -121.766250°, east -121.625694°; south 45.342083°, north 45.405139°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 21.8 m east-west and 30.9 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The USGS volcano profile lists Mount Hood at 3,426 meters, with 11,240 feet shown as its rounded imperial reference. This bounded section reaches about 3,410 meters in EGM2008. The summit is narrower than the global sampling can reproduce, and the profile’s published elevation is not used to stretch that softened geometry.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1051.8 meters at 45.393333° latitude, -121.766111° longitude. This produces about 2,358 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Mount Hood uses an approximately 3,410-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,358 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- USGS: Mount Hood volcano profile
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
Use approximately 3,410 meters for this modeled surface and keep the USGS 3,426-meter volcano reference separate. Neither number describes the vertical gain of a particular climbing route.
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