North Highlands, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
150 ft 45 m120 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m89 ft 27 m67 ft 20 m55 ft 17 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
North Highlands sits at about 100 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
100 ft 30 m
most residents: 87–120 ft
Lowest
55 ft 17 m
on the southwest side
Highest
150 ft 45 m
on the east side
Average
95 ft 29 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
North Highlands spans about 95 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 | 100 ft30 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 150 ft45 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 55 ft17 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Highlands | 95 ft29 m |
| Airport (SMF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi west of the CDP boundary | 27 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 95 ft29 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sacramento County, California, United States
- Population
- 49,327 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.8 sq mi
- Density
- 5,600 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6857° N, 121.3722° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Sacramento International (SMF) 27 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 95660 95841
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fair Oaks210 ft
- Citrus Heights160 ft
- Roseville150 ft
- Foothill Farms140 ft
- Antelope120 ft
- Carmichael110 ft
- North Highlands100 ft
- McClellan Park82 ft
- Elverta67 ft
- Arden-Arcade60 ft
- Rio Linda52 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,330th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sacramento County13th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Berryessa Peak3,062 ft
- Mount Vaca2,770 ft
- Atlas Peak2,663 ft
- Cedar Roughs2,370 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 51 ft at 38.6446° N, 121.3840° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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 Highlands 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.