Empire, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
140 ft 45 m130 ft 40 m130 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m110 ft 35 m110 ft 35 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
Empire sits at about 120 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
120 ft 35 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the west side
Highest
120 ft 35 m
on the east side
Average
120 ft 35 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Empire is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 120 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 120 ft35 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 110 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Empire | 120 ft35 m |
| Airport (MOD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi west of the CDP boundary | 99 ft30 m |
| Average of all land | 120 ft35 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Stanislaus County, California, United States
- Population
- 4,202 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,598 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6383° N, 120.9022° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Modesto City-County-Harry Sham Field (MOD) 99 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 95319 95357
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hughson130 ft
- Empire120 ft
- Keyes96 ft
- Airport95 ft
- Ceres94 ft
- Modesto92 ft
- Parklawn90 ft
- Bystrom90 ft
- Bret Harte84 ft
- West Modesto78 ft
- Rouse78 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,282nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Stanislaus County13th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Eylar Mountain4,087 ft
- Discovery Peak3,830 ft
- Mount Stakes3,810 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 110 ft at 37.6404° N, 120.9193° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Empire 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.