Fort Independence Reservation, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,220 ft 1,285 m4,140 ft 1,260 m4,100 ft 1,250 m4,020 ft 1,225 m3,940 ft 1,200 m3,910 ft 1,190 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fort Independence Reservation averages about 4,020 ft (1,225 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,910 ft on the north side to 4,220 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
4,020 ft 1,225 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
4,220 ft 1,285 m
on the west side
Lowest
3,910 ft 1,190 m
on the north side
Fort Independence Reservation spans about 310 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 | 4,020 ft1,225 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the west side | 4,220 ft1,285 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the north side | 3,910 ft1,190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the middle of Fort Independence Reservation.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in California, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 94 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 108 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Owens Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Timbi-Sha Shoshone Reservation, NV4,650 ft
- Bishop Reservation4,230 ft
- Fort Independence Reservation4,020 ft
- Big Pine Reservation3,990 ft
- Lone Pine Reservation3,710 ft
- Cold Springs Rancheria1,550 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in California17th highest of 104
- Tribal lands in the United States86th highest of 704
The one town in the reservation
- Independence partly3,930 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands 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 reservation 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 reservation.
- 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); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.