Cottonwood, Kern County, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
420 ft 125 m410 ft 125 m400 ft 125 m390 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m380 ft 115 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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, Kern County sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the south side
Highest
420 ft 125 m
on the northwest side
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cottonwood, Kern County spans about 40 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 420 ft125 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cottonwood, Kern County | 390 ft115 m |
| Airport (BFL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 510 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,522 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 8,962 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.3467° N, 118.9854° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Meadows Field (BFL) 510 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93307
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Niles500 ft
- Hillcrest480 ft
- East Bakersfield470 ft
- Fairfax, Kern County420 ft
- Potomac Park400 ft
- Casa Loma400 ft
- Benton Park390 ft
- Cottonwood, Kern County390 ft
- Old Stine390 ft
- Bakersfield380 ft
- Rexland Acres360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California832nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County64th highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Breckenridge Mountain7,577 ft
- Bear Mountain, Kern County6,920 ft
- Harper Peak5,807 ft
- Blue Mountain, Kern County4,829 ft
- Grapevine Peak4,817 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, Kern County 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.