McFarland, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
410 ft 125 m390 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m350 ft 105 m330 ft 100 m320 ft 95 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
McFarland sits at about 350 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 110 m
most residents: 340–360 ft
Lowest
320 ft 95 m
on the west side
Highest
410 ft 125 m
on the south side
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside city limits
McFarland spans about 90 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 | 350 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 410 ft125 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 320 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for McFarland | 350 ft105 m |
| Airport (DLO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi north of the city limits | 315 ft96 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 14,365 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,090 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6780° N, 119.2293° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Delano Municipal (DLO) 315 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93250
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Richgrove510 ft
- Rodriguez Camp450 ft
- Jovista390 ft
- McFarland350 ft
- Shafter340 ft
- Cherokee Strip330 ft
- Mexican Colony330 ft
- Smith Corner330 ft
- Wasco320 ft
- Delano310 ft
- Earlimart280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California891st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County73rd highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tobias Peak8,292 ft
- Breckenridge Mountain7,577 ft
- Blue Mountain, Kern County4,829 ft
- McKittrick Summit4,336 ft
- Rocky Hill1,780 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 310 ft at 35.6835° N, 119.2785° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.