Almanor, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,810 ft 1,465 m4,740 ft 1,445 m4,700 ft 1,430 m4,620 ft 1,405 m4,540 ft 1,385 m4,500 ft 1,370 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 CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Almanor sits at about 4,570 ft (1,390 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
4,570 ft 1,390 m
few residents
Lowest
4,500 ft 1,370 m
on the north side
Highest
4,810 ft 1,465 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
4,580 ft 1,395 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Almanor spans about 310 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 4,570 ft1,390 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 4,810 ft1,465 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 4,500 ft1,370 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Almanor | 4,560 ft1,390 m |
| Airport (O05) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 4,534 ft1,382 m |
| Average of all land | 4,580 ft1,395 m |
| Nearest peak Dyer Mountain, 7.1 mi east of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,481 ft2,280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,570 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.5 °F95.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
85% of sea level
25.3 inHg (85.7 kPa): each breath holds 15% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Plumas County, California, United States
- Population
- 3 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 3.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2174° N, 121.1741° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- North Fork Feather River → Feather River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Rogers Field (O05) 4,534 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95923
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clear Creek4,950 ft
- Lake Almanor Country Club4,790 ft
- Lake Almanor Peninsula4,710 ft
- Lake Almanor West4,630 ft
- Hamilton Branch4,610 ft
- Prattville4,610 ft
- Canyondam4,590 ft
- East Shore4,570 ft
- Almanor4,570 ft
- Chester4,520 ft
- Caribou3,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California119th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Plumas County24th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Butt Mountain7,874 ft
- Dyer Mountain7,481 ft
- Red Hill6,352 ft
- Rush Creek Hill6,350 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill6,340 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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.
- Almanor is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.