Ferndale, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m490 ft 150 m410 ft 125 m260 ft 80 m99 ft 30 m21 ft 6 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ferndale sits at about 44 ft (14 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
44 ft 14 m
most residents: 33–56 ft
Lowest
21 ft 6 m
on the north side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
100 ft 30 m
all land inside city limits
Ferndale spans about 629 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 | 44 ft14 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 21 ft6 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ferndale | 55 ft17 m |
| Airport (FOT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi east of the city limits | 393 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 100 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Humboldt County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,361 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,129 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5762° N, 124.2639° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Rohnerville (FOT) 393 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95536
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hydesville380 ft
- Pine Hills210 ft
- Humboldt Hill170 ft
- Scotia160 ft
- Rio Dell130 ft
- Fortuna110 ft
- Bayview110 ft
- Loleta69 ft
- Ferndale44 ft
- Fairhaven12 ft
- Fields Landing7 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,504th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Humboldt County34th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Iaqua Buttes3,730 ft
- South Rainbow Peak3,620 ft
- Grasshopper Mountain3,379 ft
- Taylor Peak3,370 ft
- Cooskie Mountain2,950 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.