Oroville, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m480 ft 145 m420 ft 125 m300 ft 90 m180 ft 55 m130 ft 40 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Oroville 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: 160–380 ft
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the southwest side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the east side
Average
240 ft 75 m
all land inside city limits
Oroville spans about 460 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 east side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 130 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oroville | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (OVE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 194 ft59 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft75 m |
| Nearest peak Bloomer Hill, 9.1 mi northeast of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,004 ft916 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Butte County, California, United States
- Population
- 19,712 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,418 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5138° N, 121.5564° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Feather River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Oroville Municipal (OVE) 194 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 95965 95966
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cherokee1,220 ft
- Kelly Ridge1,050 ft
- Bangor710 ft
- Butte Valley470 ft
- Oroville East460 ft
- South Oroville270 ft
- Oroville250 ft
- Thermalito200 ft
- Palermo190 ft
- Richvale110 ft
- Biggs94 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,034th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Butte County21st highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Fillmore7,710 ft
- Bald Eagle Mountain7,186 ft
- Claremont6,990 ft
- Bloomer Hill3,004 ft
- South Butte2,100 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, 120 ft at 39.4926° N, 121.5779° 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.