Burney, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,590 ft 1,095 m3,460 ft 1,055 m3,400 ft 1,035 m3,280 ft 1,000 m3,160 ft 960 m3,100 ft 945 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
Burney sits at about 3,140 ft (960 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,140 ft 960 m
most residents: 3,110–3,170 ft
Lowest
3,100 ft 945 m
on the north side
Highest
3,590 ft 1,095 m
on the west side
Average
3,200 ft 975 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Burney spans about 490 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 | 3,140 ft960 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 3,590 ft1,095 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 3,100 ft945 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burney | 3,130 ft955 m |
| Average of all land | 3,200 ft975 m |
| Nearest peak Burney Mountain, 4.4 mi south of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,866 ft2,398 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,140 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.2 °F96.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.7 inHg (90.3 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shasta County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,000 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi
- Density
- 558 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8824° N, 121.6608° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Pit River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 96013
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Old Station4,380 ft
- Hat Creek3,450 ft
- Fall River Mills3,320 ft
- McArthur3,310 ft
- Cassel3,210 ft
- Johnson Park3,170 ft
- Burney3,140 ft
- Montgomery Creek2,320 ft
- Round Mountain2,140 ft
- Big Bend2,040 ft
- Whitmore1,870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California238th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Shasta County8th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burney Mountain7,866 ft
- Snow Mountain, Shasta County6,810 ft
- Chalk Mountain5,880 ft
- Hatchet Mountain5,570 ft
- Saddle Mountain4,980 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.
- Burney 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.