Gridley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
120 ft 35 m110 ft 35 m110 ft 35 m99 ft 30 m91 ft 28 m87 ft 27 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
Gridley sits at about 92 ft (28 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
92 ft 28 m
most residents: 90–95 ft
Lowest
87 ft 27 m
on the west side
Highest
100 ft 30 m
on the northeast side
Average
92 ft 28 m
all land inside city limits
Gridley is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 13 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 92 ft28 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 100 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 87 ft27 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gridley | 93 ft28 m |
| Average of all land | 92 ft28 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Butte County, California, United States
- Population
- 7,355 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,315 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3638° N, 121.6936° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95948
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oroville East460 ft
- South Oroville270 ft
- Oroville250 ft
- Thermalito200 ft
- Palermo190 ft
- Richvale110 ft
- Honcut100 ft
- Biggs94 ft
- Gridley92 ft
- City of Live Oak78 ft
- Sutter73 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,355th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Butte Countylowest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Eagle Mountain7,186 ft
- Cold Spring Mountain, Lake County3,590 ft
- Bloomer Hill3,004 ft
- Jackson Mountain2,780 ft
- South Butte2,100 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).
- 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, 85 ft at 39.3660° N, 121.7146° 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.
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.