Inyokern, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,750 ft 840 m2,650 ft 810 m2,600 ft 795 m2,500 ft 760 m2,390 ft 730 m2,340 ft 715 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
Inyokern sits at about 2,450 ft (745 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,450 ft 745 m
most residents: 2,400–2,500 ft
Lowest
2,340 ft 715 m
on the north side
Highest
2,750 ft 840 m
at the foot of the Scodie Mountains
Average
2,460 ft 750 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Inyokern spans about 410 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 | 2,450 ft745 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Scodie Mountains | 2,750 ft840 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Inyokern | 2,440 ft745 m |
| Airport (IYK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,457 ft749 m |
| Average of all land | 2,460 ft750 m |
| Nearest peak Owens Peak, 8.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 8,452 ft2,576 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 988 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.9 sq mi
- Density
- 90 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6469° N, 117.8126° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- China Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Inyokern (IYK) 2,457 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93527
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Randsburg3,590 ft
- Johannesburg3,560 ft
- Onyx2,790 ft
- Weldon2,760 ft
- Pearsonville2,550 ft
- Inyokern2,450 ft
- China Lake Acres2,420 ft
- Ridgecrest Heights2,420 ft
- Ridgecrest2,300 ft
- Trona1,730 ft
- Searles Valley1,680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California327th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County25th highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Owens Peak8,452 ft
- Sawtooth Peak7,950 ft
- Volcano Peak5,349 ft
- Black Mountain, Kern County5,180 ft
- Dome Mountain4,960 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.
- Inyokern 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.