Nord, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
170 ft 50 m160 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m150 ft 45 m140 ft 40 m130 ft 40 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
Nord sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 140–150 ft
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the south side
Highest
160 ft 50 m
on the northeast side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Nord spans about 30 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 160 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 130 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nord | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (CIC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi east of the CDP boundary | 240 ft73 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Butte County, California, United States
- Population
- 286 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 136 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7796° N, 121.9572° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Chico Regional (CIC) 240 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95973
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cohasset2,500 ft
- Forest Ranch2,420 ft
- Butte Creek Canyon530 ft
- Corning280 ft
- Orland250 ft
- Vina210 ft
- Chico200 ft
- Artois170 ft
- Durham160 ft
- Hamilton City150 ft
- Nord150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,216th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Butte County26th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Eagle Mountain7,186 ft
- Turner Mountain6,898 ft
- Inskip Hill3,090 ft
- Bloomer Hill3,004 ft
- South Butte2,100 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.
- Nord 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.