Furnace Creek, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m640 ft 195 m490 ft 150 m180 ft 55 m−120 ft −35 m−270 ft −85 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
Furnace Creek sits about 190 ft (60 m) below sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
−190 ft −60 m
most residents: −190–−180 ft
Lowest
−270 ft −85 m
on the south side
Highest
950 ft 290 m
at the foot of the Funeral Mountains
Average
−190 ft −60 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Furnace Creek spans about 1,220 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.
About 100% of residents live below sea level.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | −190 ft−60 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Funeral Mountains | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | −270 ft−85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Furnace Creek | −190 ft−60 m |
| Airport (L06) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | −210 ft−64 m |
| Average of all land | −190 ft−60 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Inyo County, California, United States
- Population
- 136 2020 Census
- Land area
- 31.5 sq mi
- Density
- 4.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4580° N, 116.8709° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Salt Creek → Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Furnace Creek (L06) −210 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 92328
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Darwin4,910 ft
- Keeler3,610 ft
- Beatty, NV3,350 ft
- Homewood Canyon3,330 ft
- Pahrump, NV2,630 ft
- Amargosa Valley, NV2,330 ft
- Valley Wells2,190 ft
- Shoshone1,900 ft
- Trona1,730 ft
- Tecopa1,440 ft
- Furnace Creek−190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,619th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Inyo Countylowest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wildrose Peak9,060 ft
- Pyramid Peak6,708 ft
- Tucki Mountain6,680 ft
- Schwaub Peak6,380 ft
- Dantes View5,710 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.
- Furnace Creek 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.