Blue Lake, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
330 ft 100 m260 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m160 ft 50 m88 ft 27 m53 ft 16 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Blue Lake sits at about 110 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
110 ft 35 m
most residents: 82–140 ft
Lowest
53 ft 16 m
on the west side
Highest
330 ft 100 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
94 ft 29 m
all land inside city limits
Blue Lake spans about 277 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 | 110 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 330 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 53 ft16 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Blue Lake | 130 ft40 m |
| Airport (ACV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi northwest of the city limits | 222 ft68 m |
| Average of all land | 94 ft29 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Humboldt County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,159 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,875 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8829° N, 123.9839° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County (ACV) 222 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95525
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Westhaven-Moonstone340 ft
- Fieldbrook210 ft
- Cutten190 ft
- McKinleyville130 ft
- Blue Lake110 ft
- Myrtletown99 ft
- Indianola83 ft
- Eureka75 ft
- Arcata40 ft
- Samoa29 ft
- Manila18 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,293rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Humboldt County26th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spike Buck Mountain5,480 ft
- Board Camp Mountain5,191 ft
- Buck Buttes4,280 ft
- Sugar Pine Mountain3,910 ft
- Iaqua Buttes3,730 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.