Challenge-Brownsville, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,100 ft 945 m2,730 ft 835 m2,550 ft 775 m2,180 ft 665 m1,810 ft 550 m1,630 ft 495 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
Challenge-Brownsville sits at about 2,430 ft (740 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,430 ft 740 m
most residents: 2,080–2,670 ft
Lowest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the west side
Highest
3,100 ft 945 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,370 ft 720 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Challenge-Brownsville spans about 1,470 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 | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,100 ft945 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Average of all land | 2,370 ft720 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the middle of Challenge-Brownsville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Yuba County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,161 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.7 sq mi
- Density
- 120 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4593° N, 121.2654° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 95919 95925
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clipper Mills3,430 ft
- Camptonville2,810 ft
- Forbestown2,730 ft
- Robinson Mill2,460 ft
- Challenge-Brownsville2,430 ft
- North San Juan2,180 ft
- Dobbins1,860 ft
- Rackerby1,150 ft
- Kelly Ridge1,050 ft
- Bangor710 ft
- Oroville East460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California329th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Yuba County2nd highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sierra Buttes8,520 ft
- Mount Fillmore7,710 ft
- Bald Eagle Mountain7,186 ft
- Claremont6,990 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.
- Challenge-Brownsville 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.