Colfax, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,840 ft 865 m2,620 ft 800 m2,520 ft 765 m2,300 ft 700 m2,090 ft 635 m1,980 ft 605 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Colfax sits at about 2,420 ft (740 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,420 ft 740 m
most residents: 2,270–2,550 ft
Lowest
1,980 ft 605 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,840 ft 865 m
on Colfax Hill
Average
2,380 ft 725 m
all land inside city limits
Colfax spans about 860 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 | 2,420 ft740 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Colfax Hill | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colfax | 2,420 ft735 m |
| Airport (GOO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi north of the city limits | 3,158 ft963 m |
| Average of all land | 2,380 ft725 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Placer County, California, United States
- Population
- 2,058 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,464 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1007° N, 120.9533° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Nevada County (GOO) 3,158 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95713
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Alta3,770 ft
- Dutch Flat3,180 ft
- Foresthill3,030 ft
- Nevada City2,600 ft
- Grass Valley2,520 ft
- Colfax2,420 ft
- Alta Sierra2,160 ft
- Rough and Ready2,040 ft
- Meadow Vista1,770 ft
- Auburn Lake Trails1,640 ft
- Lake of the Pines1,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California331st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Placer County10th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Lola9,147 ft
- Granite Chief9,010 ft
- Basin Peak9,010 ft
- Sierra Buttes8,520 ft
- Snow Mountain, Placer County8,010 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.