Belden, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,810 ft 855 m2,660 ft 810 m2,590 ft 790 m2,440 ft 745 m2,290 ft 700 m2,210 ft 675 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Belden sits at about 2,300 ft (700 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,300 ft 700 m
few residents
Lowest
2,210 ft 675 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,810 ft 855 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,340 ft 715 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Belden spans about 600 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Belden | 2,250 ft685 m |
| Average of all land | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Nearest peak Red Hill, 2.5 mi northeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 6,352 ft1,936 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Plumas County, California, United States
- Population
- 15 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 25 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0060° N, 121.2491° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- North Fork Feather River → Feather River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95915
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bucks Lake5,370 ft
- Prattville4,610 ft
- Canyondam4,590 ft
- Almanor4,570 ft
- Meadow Valley3,750 ft
- Indian Falls3,360 ft
- Caribou3,030 ft
- Tobin2,980 ft
- Paxton2,910 ft
- Twain2,790 ft
- Belden2,300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California346th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Plumas Countylowest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Butt Mountain7,874 ft
- Bald Eagle Mountain7,186 ft
- Red Hill6,352 ft
- Rush Creek Hill6,350 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill6,340 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Belden 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.