Mount Shasta, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,280 ft 1,305 m4,060 ft 1,240 m3,950 ft 1,205 m3,740 ft 1,140 m3,520 ft 1,070 m3,410 ft 1,040 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
Mount Shasta sits at about 3,620 ft (1,105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,620 ft 1,105 m
most residents: 3,540–3,700 ft
Lowest
3,410 ft 1,040 m
on the south side
Highest
4,280 ft 1,305 m
on Spring Hill
Average
3,700 ft 1,130 m
all land inside city limits
Mount Shasta spans about 870 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 | 3,620 ft1,105 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Spring Hill | 4,280 ft1,305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 3,410 ft1,040 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Shasta | 3,590 ft1,095 m |
| Average of all land | 3,700 ft1,130 m |
| Nearest peak Black Butte, Siskiyou County, 1.3 mi northwest of the city limits | 6,310 ft1,920 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,620 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.3 °F96.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.2 inHg (88.8 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Siskiyou County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,124 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Density
- 829 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3099° N, 122.3106° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 96067
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Shasta3,620 ft
- Weed3,540 ft
- Carrick3,480 ft
- McCloud3,280 ft
- Coffee Creek2,970 ft
- Edgewood2,960 ft
- Lake Shastina2,920 ft
- Gazelle2,790 ft
- Grenada2,570 ft
- Dunsmuir2,380 ft
- Castella2,100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California195th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Siskiyou County6th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Shasta14,130 ft
- Mount Eddy9,038 ft
- China Mountain8,530 ft
- Black Butte, Siskiyou County6,310 ft
- Girard Ridge5,166 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).
- 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.
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.