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Gopher Flats Oregon Map

Explore Gopher Flats, Oregon, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Gopher Flats, Oregon

How to Use This Gopher Flats, Oregon Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Gopher Flats, Oregon. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Oregon or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Gopher Flats.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Gopher Flats
State	Oregon (OR)
County	Umatilla County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	45.6658
Longitude	-118.7225
Population	329
Density	60.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	97801
Area Code	541
County Seat	Pendleton
School District	Pendleton School District 16

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About Gopher Flats, Oregon

Gopher Flats is a locality in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. It is a small community with a population of 329. The population density is 60.3 people per km². Gopher Flats is located at 45.6658°N, 118.7225°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 97801.

Gopher Flats reveals itself as a broad, sun-bleached basin where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that seems to possess more depth than the earth beneath it. It lies 3.2 miles east of Pendleton, OR (from Pendleton, OR: bearing 98°T), and is situated 28.5 miles south-southwest of Whitman. Fine, silt-heavy soil characterizes the floor of Gopher Flats, yielding to the Umatilla River which carves a narrow, verdant artery through the dust only a mile from the center. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Blue Mountains provide a jagged anchor to the view, their peaks often holding the first cold shadows of the afternoon. The light here acts with a peculiar clarity, sharpening the edges of the dry grasses until they glow like thin, copper wires in the late sun, turning the entire landscape into a study of muted ochre and pale, dusty gold.

Traces of the Oregon Trail National Historic Trail mark the ground with a quiet, persistent gravity, reminding those who traverse the basin that this land served as a threshold for thousands seeking a different life. Agriculture remains the quiet pulse of the local economy, with irrigation drawn from the nearby McKay Reservoir sustaining patches of emerald crops that stand in stark contrast to the surrounding arid plains. The pace of life in Gopher Flats follows the seasonal turning of the wheat and the slow migration of the shadows across the basin floor, where the wind carries a scent of dry chaff and earth. A stillness pervades the atmosphere, one that suggests the land is less a place to be conquered than a vast, open room where the history of passage is still written in the dust.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Oregon Trail National Historic Trail (National Trail) — 0.0 mi, 199° S · 1,027 acres
River Parkway (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 289° W
Kiwanis Park (Local Park) — 2.2 mi, 288° W
Umatilla National Forest (National Forest) — 2.5 mi, 288° W · 1.4M acres
Til Taylor (Public Artwork) — 2.8 mi, 281° W
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 090° E
Tamastslikt Cultural Institute (Museum) — 3.0 mi, 106° E
Heritage Station Museum (Museum) — 3.1 mi, 274° W
Pendleton Underground Tour (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 276° W
Umatilla County Museum (Museum) — 3.1 mi, 274° W
Pendleton Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 3.3 mi, 281° W
Mckay Creek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.0 mi, 220° SW · 42 acres
Blue Mountain Forest State Scenic Corridor (State Recreation Area) — 9.2 mi, 124° SE
Heaven Overlook (Viewpoint) — 11.8 mi, 148° SE
Ampitheatre (Theatre) — 15.3 mi, 125° SE
Whitman National Forest (National Forest) — 22.7 mi, 167° S · 1.3M acres
Echo Museum (Museum) — 23.4 mi, 283° W
Marie Dorion Monument (Monument) — 23.8 mi, 046° NE
Frazier Farmstead and Museum (Museum) — 24.3 mi, 043° NE
North Fork Umatilla Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 25.3 mi, 077° E · 20k acres
Mcnary National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.7 mi, 334° NW · 32k acres
Wanaket Wildlife Area (National Conservation Area) — 27.9 mi, 306° NW · 2,909 acres
Frenchtown Monument (Monument) — 28.5 mi, 021° N
Whitman Memorial (Attraction) — 28.8 mi, 026° NE
Hover High School (Historic Ruins) — 32.7 mi, 338° N
Gesa Power House Theater (Theatre) — 33.0 mi, 033° NE
Combine Art Collective (Gallery) — 33.4 mi, 033° NE
Brushes N' Brix (Attraction) — 36.3 mi, 036° NE
Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 40.0 mi, 069° E · 177k acres
Hanford Reach National Monument (National Monument) — 57.1 mi, 333° NW · 391k acres

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