Arvin, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m390 ft 120 m390 ft 115 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Arvin sits at about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 130 m
most residents: 410–450 ft
Lowest
390 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the northwest side
Average
420 ft 125 m
all land inside city limits
Arvin spans about 70 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 390 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Arvin | 440 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 19,661 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.8 sq mi
- Density
- 4,080 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2091° N, 118.8284° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 93203
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Edison560 ft
- Di Giorgio490 ft
- Edmundson Acres480 ft
- Arvin420 ft
- Fairfax, Kern County420 ft
- Fuller Acres410 ft
- Lamont400 ft
- Weedpatch380 ft
- Rexland Acres360 ft
- Greenfield, Kern County350 ft
- El Adobe330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California792nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County56th highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cummings Mountain7,750 ft
- Breckenridge Mountain7,577 ft
- Bear Mountain, Kern County6,920 ft
- Harper Peak5,807 ft
- Grapevine Peak4,817 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 380 ft at 35.1826° N, 118.8424° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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).
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.