Hanford, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
260 ft 80 m240 ft 75 m240 ft 70 m220 ft 70 m210 ft 65 m200 ft 60 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hanford sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 220–240 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the south side
Highest
260 ft 80 m
near the middle
Average
230 ft 70 m
all land inside city limits
Hanford spans about 60 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 260 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hanford | 230 ft70 m |
| Airport (HJO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 240 ft73 m |
| Average of all land | 230 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kings County, California, United States
- Population
- 60,594 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.4 sq mi
- Density
- 3,297 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.3275° N, 119.6457° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Hanford Municipal (HJO) 240 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93230
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Traver290 ft
- Goshen280 ft
- West Goshen260 ft
- Laton250 ft
- Hardwick240 ft
- Hanford230 ft
- Grangeville220 ft
- Home Garden220 ft
- Armona220 ft
- Lemoore210 ft
- Stratford190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,061st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kings County4th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bear Mountain, Fresno County3,400 ft
- Tivy Mountain2,840 ft
- Jesse Morrow Mountain2,100 ft
- Campbell Mountain1,756 ft
- Colvin Mountain1,610 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, 190 ft at 36.2651° N, 119.6535° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.