Carnelian Bay, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,130 ft 2,175 m6,900 ft 2,105 m6,790 ft 2,070 m6,570 ft 2,000 m6,340 ft 1,935 m6,230 ft 1,900 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
Carnelian Bay sits at about 6,330 ft (1,930 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,330 ft 1,930 m
most residents: 6,260–6,410 ft
Lowest
6,230 ft 1,900 m
on the northeast side
Highest
7,130 ft 2,175 m
at the foot of the Sagehen Hills
Average
6,450 ft 1,965 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Carnelian Bay spans about 900 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 | 6,330 ft1,930 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Sagehen Hills | 7,130 ft2,175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 6,230 ft1,900 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carnelian Bay | 6,240 ft1,900 m |
| Airport (TRK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 5,904 ft1,800 m |
| Average of all land | 6,450 ft1,965 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Pluto, 2.6 mi west of the CDP boundary | 8,610 ft2,625 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,330 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.2 °F93.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.7 inHg (80.2 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Placer County, California, United States
- Population
- 518 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 399 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2269° N, 120.0819° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Truckee River → Pyramid Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Truckee-Tahoe (TRK) 5,904 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 95604 96140
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cedar Flat6,530 ft
- Incline Village, NV6,480 ft
- Dollar Point6,440 ft
- Crystal Bay, NV6,390 ft
- Sunnyside-Tahoe City6,360 ft
- Tahoma6,340 ft
- Carnelian Bay6,330 ft
- Tahoe Vista6,290 ft
- Kings Beach6,290 ft
- Floriston6,210 ft
- Truckee5,950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California27th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Placer County4th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Rose10,760 ft
- Snow Valley Peak9,160 ft
- Granite Chief9,010 ft
- Mount Pluto8,610 ft
- Verdi Peak8,451 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.
- Carnelian Bay 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.