Cressey, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
190 ft 55 m160 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m95 ft 29 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
Cressey sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 50 m
most residents: 150–170 ft
Lowest
96 ft 29 m
on the north side
Highest
190 ft 55 m
on the east side
Average
160 ft 50 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cressey spans about 94 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 | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 190 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 96 ft29 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cressey | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (MCE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 155 ft47 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Merced County, California, United States
- Population
- 366 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 208 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4197° N, 120.6674° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Merced Yosemite Regional (MCE) 155 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 95312 95388
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Winton170 ft
- Cressey170 ft
- Franklin160 ft
- Atwater160 ft
- Ballico150 ft
- McSwain150 ft
- Livingston130 ft
- Denair120 ft
- Delhi120 ft
- Turlock110 ft
- Hilmar-Irwin91 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,169th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Merced County8th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bullion Knob4,240 ft
- Eylar Mountain4,087 ft
- Mount Stakes3,810 ft
- Potrero Peak3,730 ft
- Bear Mountain, Calaveras County2,890 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.
- Cressey 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.