Bear Valley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,160 ft 965 m2,870 ft 875 m2,720 ft 830 m2,420 ft 740 m2,130 ft 650 m1,980 ft 605 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
Bear Valley sits at about 2,140 ft (650 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,140 ft 650 m
most residents: 2,080–2,220 ft
Lowest
1,980 ft 605 m
on the south side
Highest
3,160 ft 965 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,250 ft 685 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bear Valley spans about 1,180 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 | 2,140 ft650 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,160 ft965 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bear Valley | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Airport (MPI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 2,254 ft687 m |
| Average of all land | 2,250 ft685 m |
| Nearest peak Bullion Knob, 4.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 4,240 ft1,295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mariposa County, California, United States
- Population
- 156 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 64 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5688° N, 120.1193° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Bear Creek → San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mariposa-Yosemite (MPI) 2,254 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95338
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greeley Hill3,240 ft
- Buck Meadows3,010 ft
- Midpines2,780 ft
- Bootjack2,310 ft
- Mt. Bullion2,190 ft
- Mariposa2,170 ft
- Bear Valley2,140 ft
- Coulterville1,730 ft
- Catheys Valley1,350 ft
- Lake Don Pedro1,150 ft
- Hornitos880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California369th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Mariposa County13th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Hoffmann10,820 ft
- Iron Mountain9,170 ft
- Goat Mountain, Madera County4,960 ft
- Deadwood Peak, Madera County4,543 ft
- Bullion Knob4,240 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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).
- 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.
- Bear Valley 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.