Ford City, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m900 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m810 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 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
Ford City sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 850–930 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the north side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
at the foot of the Buena Vista Hills
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ford City spans about 240 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Buena Vista Hills | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ford City | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (L17) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 858 ft262 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 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 Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 4,348 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,833 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1544° N, 119.4562° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Taft-Kern County (L17) 858 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93268
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Derby Acres1,360 ft
- Fellows1,320 ft
- Taft Heights1,160 ft
- McKittrick1,060 ft
- South Taft1,050 ft
- Taft940 ft
- Ford City880 ft
- Maricopa880 ft
- Valley Acres420 ft
- Dustin Acres360 ft
- Tupman320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California582nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County41st highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Pinos8,830 ft
- San Emigdio Mountain7,490 ft
- Peak Mountain5,840 ft
- Caliente Mountain5,080 ft
- McKittrick Summit4,336 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.
- Ford City 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.