Indian Falls, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,140 ft 1,570 m4,590 ft 1,400 m4,320 ft 1,315 m3,770 ft 1,150 m3,210 ft 980 m2,940 ft 895 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
Indian Falls sits at about 3,360 ft (1,025 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,360 ft 1,025 m
most residents: 3,300–3,870 ft
Lowest
2,940 ft 895 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,140 ft 1,570 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
3,960 ft 1,205 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Indian Falls spans about 2,200 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 | 3,360 ft1,025 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 5,140 ft1,570 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,940 ft895 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Indian Falls | 3,260 ft995 m |
| Airport (2O1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi south of the CDP boundary | 3,419 ft1,042 m |
| Average of all land | 3,960 ft1,205 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Hough, 4.2 mi east of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,235 ft2,205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,360 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.8 °F96.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.5 inHg (89.6 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Plumas County, California, United States
- Population
- 79 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0568° N, 120.9638° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- North Fork Feather River → Feather River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Gansner Field (2O1) 3,419 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95934
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Canyondam4,590 ft
- Crescent Mills4,050 ft
- Meadow Valley3,750 ft
- Greenville3,600 ft
- Taylorsville3,550 ft
- East Quincy3,510 ft
- Quincy3,430 ft
- Indian Falls3,360 ft
- Keddie3,180 ft
- Paxton2,910 ft
- Twain2,790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California220th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Plumas County40th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Hough7,235 ft
- Claremont6,990 ft
- Red Hill6,352 ft
- Rush Creek Hill6,350 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill6,340 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Indian Falls 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.