Norris Canyon, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,850 ft 565 m1,510 ft 460 m1,350 ft 410 m1,020 ft 310 m690 ft 210 m520 ft 160 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
Norris Canyon sits at about 1,270 ft (385 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,270 ft 385 m
most residents: 1,040–1,270 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the east side
Highest
1,850 ft 565 m
on Wiedemann Hill
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Norris Canyon spans about 1,330 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 | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Wiedemann Hill | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 520 ft160 m |
| Airport (OAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi west of the CDP boundary | 9 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Diablo, 8.9 mi north of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 3,864 ft1,178 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the middle of Norris Canyon.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,313 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Density
- 364 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7437° N, 121.9865° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK) 9 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94583
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Norris Canyon1,270 ft
- Blackhawk900 ft
- Camino Tassajara740 ft
- Diablo600 ft
- San Ramon550 ft
- Danville490 ft
- Dublin380 ft
- Fairview370 ft
- Castro Valley270 ft
- Hayward52 ft
- Ashland43 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California499th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Contra Costa Countyhighest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 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.
- Norris Canyon 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.