Butte Creek Canyon, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,230 ft 680 m1,730 ft 530 m1,480 ft 450 m980 ft 300 m480 ft 145 m230 ft 70 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Butte Creek Canyon sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 260–1,030 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,230 ft 680 m
on the northeast side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Butte Creek Canyon spans about 2,000 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 2,230 ft680 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 230 ft70 m |
| Airport (CIC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 240 ft73 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.7 mi west to east through the middle of Butte Creek Canyon.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Butte County, California, United States
- Population
- 780 2020 Census
- Land area
- 20.5 sq mi
- Density
- 38 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7445° N, 121.7071° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Chico Regional (CIC) 240 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95928
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cohasset2,500 ft
- Magalia2,470 ft
- Forest Ranch2,420 ft
- Concow2,250 ft
- Yankee Hill1,890 ft
- Paradise1,780 ft
- Cherokee1,220 ft
- Butte Creek Canyon530 ft
- Butte Valley470 ft
- Chico200 ft
- Durham160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California716th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Butte County17th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Butt Mountain7,874 ft
- Bald Eagle Mountain7,186 ft
- Red Hill6,352 ft
- Rush Creek Hill6,350 ft
- Bloomer Hill3,004 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.
- Butte Creek Canyon 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.