Atwater, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
180 ft 55 m170 ft 50 m170 ft 50 m160 ft 45 m140 ft 45 m140 ft 45 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
Atwater sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 150–170 ft
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the southwest side
Highest
180 ft 55 m
on the southeast side
Average
160 ft 50 m
all land inside city limits
Atwater spans about 40 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 180 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Atwater | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (MCE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi southeast of the city limits | 155 ft47 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Merced County, California, United States
- Population
- 32,248 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.6 sq mi
- Density
- 4,902 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3477° N, 120.6091° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Merced Yosemite Regional (MCE) 155 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95301
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tuttle200 ft
- Bear Creek190 ft
- Winton170 ft
- Merced170 ft
- Cressey170 ft
- Franklin160 ft
- Atwater160 ft
- Ballico150 ft
- McSwain150 ft
- Livingston130 ft
- Delhi120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,187th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Merced County11th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bullion Knob4,240 ft
- Mount Stakes3,810 ft
- Potrero Peak3,730 ft
- Cerro Colorado3,660 ft
- Bear Mountain, Calaveras County2,890 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, 130 ft at 37.3376° N, 120.6060° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.