Big Bend, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,430 ft 740 m2,190 ft 665 m2,060 ft 630 m1,810 ft 555 m1,570 ft 480 m1,440 ft 440 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
Big Bend sits at about 2,040 ft (620 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,040 ft 620 m
most residents: 1,790–2,160 ft
Lowest
1,440 ft 440 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,430 ft 740 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,930 ft 590 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Big Bend spans about 990 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 | 2,040 ft620 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Bend | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Average of all land | 1,930 ft590 m |
| Nearest peak Chalk Mountain, 4.5 mi east of the CDP boundary | 5,880 ft1,790 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shasta County, California, United States
- Population
- 79 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0207° N, 121.9111° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Pit River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 96011
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hat Creek3,450 ft
- McCloud3,280 ft
- Cassel3,210 ft
- Johnson Park3,170 ft
- Burney3,140 ft
- Dunsmuir2,380 ft
- Montgomery Creek2,320 ft
- Round Mountain2,140 ft
- Castella2,100 ft
- Big Bend2,040 ft
- Oak Run1,530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California379th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Shasta County13th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chalk Mountain5,880 ft
- Hatchet Mountain5,570 ft
- North Fork Mountain5,344 ft
- Shoeinhorse Mountain5,280 ft
- Hogback Mountain3,770 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.
- Big Bend 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.