Cottonwood, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m610 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m490 ft 150 m420 ft 125 m380 ft 115 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
Cottonwood sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 430–510 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the east side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the west side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cottonwood spans about 310 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cottonwood | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (RDD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi north of the CDP boundary | 505 ft154 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shasta County, California, United States
- Population
- 6,268 2020 Census
- Land area
- 13.2 sq mi
- Density
- 474 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3857° N, 122.2808° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Redding Regional (RDD) 505 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96022
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Centerville850 ft
- Happy Valley750 ft
- Dales670 ft
- Redding570 ft
- Millville510 ft
- Lake California490 ft
- Palo Cedro470 ft
- Cottonwood460 ft
- Anderson430 ft
- Bend320 ft
- Red Bluff310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California763rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Shasta County31st highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bully Choop Mountain6,960 ft
- Shasta Bally6,190 ft
- Inskip Hill3,090 ft
- Bass Mountain2,786 ft
- Bear Mountain, Shasta County2,627 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.
- Cottonwood 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.