Madeline, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,350 ft 1,630 m5,340 ft 1,630 m5,340 ft 1,625 m5,330 ft 1,625 m5,320 ft 1,620 m5,320 ft 1,620 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Madeline sits at about 5,330 ft (1,625 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
5,330 ft 1,625 m
few residents
Lowest
5,320 ft 1,620 m
on the southeast side
Highest
5,340 ft 1,630 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
5,330 ft 1,625 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Madeline is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 5,330 ft1,625 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 5,340 ft1,630 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 5,320 ft1,620 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Madeline | 5,320 ft1,620 m |
| Average of all land | 5,330 ft1,625 m |
| Nearest peak Tule Mountain, 5.8 mi north of the CDP boundary | 7,090 ft2,160 m |
Altitude Effects
What 5,330 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.1 °F94.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.6 inHg (83.3 kPa): each breath holds 18% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+11% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lassen County, California, United States
- Population
- 21 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 396 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0510° N, 120.4755° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 96119
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Madeline5,330 ft
- Stones Landing5,160 ft
- Spaulding5,140 ft
- Eagleville4,630 ft
- Likely4,460 ft
- Daphnedale Park4,420 ft
- California Pines4,410 ft
- Alturas4,370 ft
- Canby4,320 ft
- Adin4,210 ft
- Bieber4,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California58th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Lassen Countyhighest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- McDonald Peak7,935 ft
- Likely Mountain7,381 ft
- Knox Mountain7,090 ft
- Tule Mountain7,090 ft
- Whitinger Mountain7,060 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Madeline 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.