Downieville, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,140 ft 1,565 m4,570 ft 1,390 m4,280 ft 1,305 m3,700 ft 1,130 m3,130 ft 955 m2,840 ft 865 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
Downieville sits at about 2,980 ft (905 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,980 ft 905 m
most residents: 2,900–3,870 ft
Lowest
2,840 ft 865 m
on the west side
Highest
5,140 ft 1,565 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
3,570 ft 1,085 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Downieville spans about 2,300 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 | 2,980 ft905 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 5,140 ft1,565 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Downieville | 2,930 ft895 m |
| Average of all land | 3,570 ft1,085 m |
| Nearest peak Sierra Buttes, 8.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 8,520 ft2,600 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sierra County, California, United States
- Population
- 290 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- Density
- 91 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5593° N, 120.8269° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- North Yuba River → Yuba River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95936
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Johnsville5,740 ft
- Little Grass Valley5,500 ft
- Graniteville5,010 ft
- La Porte4,990 ft
- Sierra City4,280 ft
- Alleghany4,240 ft
- Pike3,290 ft
- Downieville2,980 ft
- Goodyears Bar2,850 ft
- Camptonville2,810 ft
- Washington2,700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California255th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sierra County10th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sierra Buttes8,520 ft
- Haskell Peak8,090 ft
- Mount Fillmore7,710 ft
- Beckwourth Peak7,264 ft
- Claremont6,990 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.
- Downieville 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.