North Gate, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m390 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m290 ft 90 m230 ft 70 m200 ft 60 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
North Gate sits at about 270 ft (85 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
270 ft 85 m
few residents
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the northwest side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
at the foot of the Hemme Hills
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
North Gate spans about 260 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 270 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Hemme Hills | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (CCR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 26 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Diablo, 4.3 mi east of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 3,864 ft1,178 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the middle of North Gate.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Population
- 667 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 907 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9049° N, 121.9992° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Buchanan Field (CCR) 26 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94598
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clayton490 ft
- Alamo430 ft
- Acalanes Ridge410 ft
- Castle Hill300 ft
- North Gate270 ft
- San Miguel250 ft
- Shell Ridge230 ft
- Saranap200 ft
- Walnut Creek170 ft
- Contra Costa Centre88 ft
- Pleasant Hill72 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,010th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Contra Costa County17th highest 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 median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- North Gate 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.