Colusa, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
77 ft 23 m69 ft 21 m64 ft 20 m56 ft 17 m48 ft 15 m44 ft 13 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.
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- 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
Colusa sits at about 54 ft (17 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
54 ft 17 m
most residents: 51–59 ft
Lowest
44 ft 13 m
on the south side
Highest
71 ft 22 m
near the middle
Average
53 ft 16 m
all land inside city limits
Colusa is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 27 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 54 ft17 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 71 ft22 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 44 ft13 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colusa | 61 ft19 m |
| Airport (O08) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 49 ft15 m |
| Average of all land | 53 ft16 m |
| Nearest peak South Butte, 8.9 mi east of the city limits | 2,100 ft640 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Colusa County, California, United States
- Population
- 6,589 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,511 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2143° N, 122.0094° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Sidney Pickels Field (O08) 49 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95932
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Arbuckle140 ft
- Maxwell92 ft
- Gridley92 ft
- Williams85 ft
- Princeton80 ft
- City of Live Oak78 ft
- Sutter73 ft
- College City69 ft
- Colusa54 ft
- Meridian48 ft
- Grimes45 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,471st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Colusa County8th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cold Spring Mountain, Lake County3,590 ft
- Brushy Sky High3,199 ft
- Berryessa Peak3,062 ft
- Jackson Mountain2,780 ft
- South Butte2,100 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 44 ft at 39.1829° N, 122.0299° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.