Fall River Mills, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,430 ft 1,045 m3,360 ft 1,025 m3,330 ft 1,015 m3,270 ft 1,000 m3,210 ft 980 m3,180 ft 970 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
Fall River Mills sits at about 3,320 ft (1,015 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,320 ft 1,015 m
most residents: 3,230–3,400 ft
Lowest
3,180 ft 970 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,430 ft 1,045 m
at the foot of the Big Valley Mountains
Average
3,330 ft 1,015 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fall River Mills spans about 250 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 | 3,320 ft1,015 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Big Valley Mountains | 3,430 ft1,045 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 3,180 ft970 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fall River Mills | 3,320 ft1,010 m |
| Airport (O89) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 3,328 ft1,014 m |
| Average of all land | 3,330 ft1,015 m |
| Nearest peak Saddle Mountain, 2.5 mi west of the CDP boundary | 4,980 ft1,520 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,320 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.8 °F96.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.5 inHg (89.7 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shasta County, California, United States
- Population
- 616 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 233 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0046° N, 121.4383° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Pit River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Fall River Mills (O89) 3,328 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96028
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Old Station4,380 ft
- Little Valley4,230 ft
- Lookout4,150 ft
- Bieber4,130 ft
- Nubieber4,120 ft
- Hat Creek3,450 ft
- Fall River Mills3,320 ft
- McArthur3,310 ft
- Cassel3,210 ft
- Johnson Park3,170 ft
- Burney3,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California222nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Shasta County4th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burney Mountain7,866 ft
- Widow Mountain6,324 ft
- Bald Mountain, Shasta County5,585 ft
- Soldier Mountain5,530 ft
- Saddle Mountain4,980 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Fall River Mills 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.