Orland, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
280 ft 85 m260 ft 80 m260 ft 80 m250 ft 75 m230 ft 70 m230 ft 70 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Orland sits at about 250 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
250 ft 75 m
most residents: 240–260 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the southeast side
Highest
280 ft 85 m
on the northwest side
Average
250 ft 75 m
all land inside city limits
Orland spans about 50 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 | 250 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 280 ft85 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 230 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Orland | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (O37) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi southeast of the city limits | 218 ft66 m |
| Average of all land | 250 ft75 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Glenn County, California, United States
- Population
- 8,605 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 2,825 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7474° N, 122.1964° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Haigh Field (O37) 218 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95963
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Flournoy610 ft
- Corning280 ft
- Richfield270 ft
- Orland250 ft
- Los Molinos230 ft
- Vina210 ft
- Chico200 ft
- Artois170 ft
- Hamilton City150 ft
- Nord150 ft
- Willows130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,035th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Glenn County2nd highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Butte, Glenn County7,455 ft
- Brushy Mountain, Glenn County6,767 ft
- Saint John Mountain6,730 ft
- Sheetiron Mountain6,507 ft
- Goat Hill6,098 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, 220 ft at 39.7393° N, 122.1701° 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.