Lake Isabella, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,410 ft 1,650 m4,640 ft 1,415 m4,260 ft 1,300 m3,490 ft 1,065 m2,730 ft 830 m2,350 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
Lake Isabella sits at about 2,500 ft (760 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,500 ft 760 m
most residents: 2,460–2,660 ft
Lowest
2,350 ft 715 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,409 ft 1,649 m
on Cook Peak
Average
3,320 ft 1,015 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lake Isabella spans about 3,060 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 | 2,500 ft760 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Cook Peak | 5,409 ft1,649 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,350 ft715 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake Isabella | 2,500 ft765 m |
| Airport (L05) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi north of the CDP boundary | 2,614 ft797 m |
| Average of all land | 3,320 ft1,015 m |
| Nearest peak Black Mountain, Kern County, 4.6 mi north of the CDP boundary | 7,430 ft2,265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,573 2020 Census
- Land area
- 21.7 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6180° N, 118.4731° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Kern River → Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Kern Valley (L05) 2,614 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 93240 93285
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Alta Sierra, Kern County5,790 ft
- Panorama Heights5,070 ft
- Bodfish3,190 ft
- Glennville3,080 ft
- Squirrel Mountain Valley2,950 ft
- Wofford Heights2,850 ft
- Onyx2,790 ft
- Weldon2,760 ft
- Kernville2,730 ft
- Mountain Mesa2,680 ft
- Lake Isabella2,500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California318th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County23rd highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Piute Peak8,437 ft
- Tobias Peak8,292 ft
- Baker Peak7,910 ft
- Breckenridge Mountain7,577 ft
- Black Mountain, Kern County7,430 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.
- Lake Isabella 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.