Avenal, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 405 m1,070 ft 325 m950 ft 290 m690 ft 210 m440 ft 135 m320 ft 95 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Avenal sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 760–840 ft
Lowest
320 ft 95 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,320 ft 405 m
on La Cumbre
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Avenal spans about 1,000 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on La Cumbre | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 320 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Avenal | 810 ft245 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
| Nearest peak Black Mountain, Fresno County, 8.8 mi west of the city limits | 4,310 ft1,315 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kings County, California, United States
- Population
- 14,108 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.5 sq mi
- Density
- 724 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0041° N, 120.1290° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 2
- 93204 93239
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shandon1,040 ft
- Avenal800 ft
- Coalinga670 ft
- Huron350 ft
- Kettleman City250 ft
- Westside240 ft
- Armona220 ft
- Lemoore Station210 ft
- Lemoore210 ft
- Lanare200 ft
- Stratford190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California603rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kings Countyhighest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Benito Mountain5,266 ft
- Laguna Mountain4,510 ft
- Center Peak4,500 ft
- Black Mountain, Fresno County4,310 ft
- Williams Hill2,810 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, 310 ft at 36.0990° N, 120.0596° 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.