Mariposa, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,830 ft 860 m2,560 ft 780 m2,420 ft 740 m2,150 ft 655 m1,880 ft 570 m1,740 ft 530 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
Mariposa sits at about 2,170 ft (660 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,170 ft 660 m
most residents: 1,990–2,270 ft
Lowest
1,740 ft 530 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,830 ft 860 m
at the foot of the Chowchilla Mountains
Average
2,210 ft 675 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mariposa spans about 1,090 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 | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Chowchilla Mountains | 2,830 ft860 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mariposa | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Airport (MPI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 2,254 ft687 m |
| Average of all land | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Nearest peak Bullion Knob, 2.7 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 4,240 ft1,295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mariposa County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,526 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 378 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4849° N, 119.9663° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mariposa-Yosemite (MPI) 2,254 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95338
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Yosemite West5,870 ft
- Nipinnawasee3,000 ft
- Midpines2,780 ft
- Bootjack2,310 ft
- El Portal2,220 ft
- Ahwahnee2,200 ft
- Mt. Bullion2,190 ft
- Mariposa2,170 ft
- Bear Valley2,140 ft
- Catheys Valley1,350 ft
- Hornitos880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California364th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Mariposa County12th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Iron Mountain9,170 ft
- Shuteye Peak8,373 ft
- Goat Mountain, Madera County4,960 ft
- Deadwood Peak, Madera County4,543 ft
- Bullion Knob4,240 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.
- Mariposa 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.