Explore Kirkpatrick, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Kirkpatrick, 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 Kirkpatrick.
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 | Kirkpatrick |
| State | Oregon (OR) |
| County | Umatilla County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 45.679586 |
| Longitude | -118.649878 |
| Population | 160 |
| Density | 17.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 97801 |
| Area Code | 541 |
| County Seat | Pendleton |
| School District | Pendleton School District 16 |
Kirkpatrick manifests as a sun-bleached expanse where the Umatilla River carves a persistent, silver ribbon through the dry, open country. It lies 6.1 miles east of Pendleton, OR (from Pendleton, OR: bearing 86°T), and is situated 26.7 miles south-southwest of Whitman. The landscape here favors the spare geometry of high-plains agriculture, where the land stretches out in muted tones of ochre and wheat-gold toward the hazy, distant silhouette of the Blue Mountains. To the west, the contours of Gopher Flats soften the horizon, creating a basin that traps the heat of long afternoons and allows the evening light to linger in bruised purples and deep oranges. The air possesses a clean, sharp clarity, carrying the scent of dry earth and sun-baked bunchgrass, while the silence of the region is punctuated only by the rhythmic rustle of wind moving through the fields.
Kirkpatrick serves as a quiet witness to the enduring legacy of the Oregon Trail National Historic Trail, which marks the passage of earlier travelers who sought a different life across these same vast, unyielding plains. The local economy remains tethered to the pulse of the soil, with wide-reaching fields of grain and grazing land supporting a lifestyle defined by the labor of the seasons. While the nearby McKay Reservoir offers a rare pocket of still, blue depth amidst the arid terrain, life in Kirkpatrick is primarily measured by the steady progress of harvest and the slow turning of the weather. It is a place where the modern world feels distant, replaced by the honest, unadorned reality of a life lived in partnership with the persistent, dusty wind and the wide, open sky.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kirkpatrick, Oregon. Coordinates: 45.679586, -118.649878. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Kirkpatrick includes the ZIP code (97801), telephone area code (541), county seat of Umatilla County (Pendleton), and school district assignment (Pendleton School District 16).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |