Lake of the Pines, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,820 ft 555 m1,730 ft 525 m1,680 ft 510 m1,580 ft 485 m1,490 ft 455 m1,440 ft 440 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 of the Pines sits at about 1,550 ft (475 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,550 ft 475 m
most residents: 1,500–1,630 ft
Lowest
1,440 ft 440 m
on the west side
Highest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,590 ft 485 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lake of the Pines spans about 380 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 | 1,550 ft475 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake of the Pines | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Airport (AUN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi south of the CDP boundary | 1,538 ft469 m |
| Average of all land | 1,590 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nevada County, California, United States
- Population
- 4,301 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,702 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0396° N, 121.0566° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Bear River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Auburn Municipal (AUN) 1,538 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95602
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Foresthill3,030 ft
- Grass Valley2,520 ft
- Colfax2,420 ft
- Alta Sierra2,160 ft
- Meadow Vista1,770 ft
- Auburn Lake Trails1,640 ft
- Lake of the Pines1,550 ft
- Penn Valley1,430 ft
- North Auburn1,420 ft
- Auburn1,350 ft
- Newcastle810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California426th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Nevada County12th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Granite Chief9,010 ft
- Basin Peak9,010 ft
- Sierra Buttes8,520 ft
- Snow Mountain, Placer County8,010 ft
- South Butte2,100 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 of the Pines 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.