Durham, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
270 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m210 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Durham sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 140–210 ft
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the south side
Highest
270 ft 80 m
on the east side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Durham spans about 160 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 270 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 110 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Durham | 160 ft50 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Butte County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,834 2020 Census
- Land area
- 81.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 71 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6463° N, 121.8000° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Butte Creek → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 4
- 95928 95938 95958 95965
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Yankee Hill1,890 ft
- Paradise1,780 ft
- Cherokee1,220 ft
- Butte Creek Canyon530 ft
- Butte Valley470 ft
- Chico200 ft
- Thermalito200 ft
- Durham160 ft
- Hamilton City150 ft
- Nord150 ft
- Richvale110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,182nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Butte County25th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Butt Mountain7,874 ft
- Bald Eagle Mountain7,186 ft
- Red Hill6,352 ft
- Bloomer Hill3,004 ft
- South Butte2,100 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.
- Durham 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.