Murphys, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,830 ft 865 m2,580 ft 785 m2,460 ft 750 m2,210 ft 670 m1,950 ft 595 m1,830 ft 555 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
Murphys sits at about 2,230 ft (680 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,230 ft 680 m
most residents: 2,160–2,390 ft
Lowest
1,830 ft 555 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,830 ft 865 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,290 ft 700 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Murphys spans about 1,000 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 | 2,230 ft680 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,830 ft865 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Murphys | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Airport (O22) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,121 ft646 m |
| Average of all land | 2,290 ft700 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Calaveras County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,995 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi
- Density
- 368 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1374° N, 120.4596° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Stanislaus River → San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Columbia (O22) 2,121 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95247
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Arnold3,960 ft
- Avery3,440 ft
- Hathaway Pines3,370 ft
- Forest Meadows3,290 ft
- Sheep Ranch2,380 ft
- Murphys2,230 ft
- Columbia2,130 ft
- Mountain Ranch2,110 ft
- Douglas Flat1,950 ft
- Vallecito1,800 ft
- Angels1,510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California352nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Calaveras County11th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Airola Peak9,920 ft
- Peep Sight Peak9,720 ft
- Dardanelles Cone9,527 ft
- Mokelumne Peak9,337 ft
- Bear Mountain, Calaveras County2,890 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.
- Murphys 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.