Bear Valley Springs, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,920 ft 2,110 m5,420 ft 1,650 m4,670 ft 1,425 m3,170 ft 965 m1,670 ft 510 m920 ft 280 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bear Valley Springs sits at about 4,350 ft (1,325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,350 ft 1,325 m
most residents: 4,060–5,290 ft
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the west side
Highest
6,920 ft 2,110 m
on Bear Mountain
Average
4,270 ft 1,300 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bear Valley Springs spans about 6,000 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 | 4,350 ft1,325 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Bear Mountain | 6,920 ft2,110 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 920 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bear Valley Springs | 4,110 ft1,255 m |
| Average of all land | 4,270 ft1,300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,350 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.9 °F95.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
85% of sea level
25.5 inHg (86.4 kPa): each breath holds 15% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.9% 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 Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,592 2020 Census
- Land area
- 38.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 144 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1591° N, 118.6284° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 93561
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bear Valley Springs4,350 ft
- Mountain Meadows4,310 ft
- Tehachapi4,000 ft
- Golden Hills3,950 ft
- Stallion Springs3,830 ft
- Keene3,020 ft
- Di Giorgio490 ft
- Edmundson Acres480 ft
- Arvin420 ft
- Lamont400 ft
- Weedpatch380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California137th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County5th highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Covington Mountain7,880 ft
- Cummings Mountain7,750 ft
- Breckenridge Mountain7,577 ft
- Bear Mountain, Kern County6,920 ft
- Harper Peak5,807 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).
- 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.
- Bear Valley Springs 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.