Big Creek, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,630 ft 1,715 m5,300 ft 1,615 m5,140 ft 1,565 m4,810 ft 1,465 m4,490 ft 1,370 m4,330 ft 1,320 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
Big Creek sits at about 4,870 ft (1,485 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
4,870 ft 1,485 m
few residents
Lowest
4,330 ft 1,320 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,630 ft 1,715 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
4,840 ft 1,475 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Big Creek spans about 1,300 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 | 4,870 ft1,485 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 5,630 ft1,715 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 4,330 ft1,320 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Creek | 4,970 ft1,515 m |
| Average of all land | 4,840 ft1,475 m |
| Nearest peak Kaiser Peak, 6.6 mi northeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 10,315 ft3,144 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,870 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.0 °F95.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.0 inHg (84.7 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fresno County, California, United States
- Population
- 151 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 328 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2049° N, 119.2460° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 93605
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shaver Lake5,590 ft
- Fish Camp5,090 ft
- Big Creek4,870 ft
- Bass Lake3,480 ft
- North Fork3,000 ft
- Oakhurst2,830 ft
- Coarsegold2,230 ft
- Auberry2,200 ft
- Ahwahnee2,200 ft
- Yosemite Lakes1,290 ft
- Millerton640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California93rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Fresno County2nd highest of 45
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Three Sisters10,617 ft
- Kaiser Peak10,315 ft
- Shuteye Peak8,373 ft
- Goat Mountain, Madera County4,960 ft
- Black Mountain, Fresno County3,598 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).
- 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.
- Big Creek 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.