Palo Cedro, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 200 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m500 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 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
Palo Cedro sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 440–580 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the south side
Highest
660 ft 200 m
on the north side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Palo Cedro spans about 250 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 660 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Palo Cedro | 470 ft145 m |
| Airport (RDD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 505 ft154 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
| Nearest peak Bear Mountain, Shasta County, 9.1 mi north of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 2,627 ft801 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shasta County, California, United States
- Population
- 2,931 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 358 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5638° N, 122.2389° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Redding Regional (RDD) 505 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 96003 96073
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jones Valley990 ft
- Mountain Gate930 ft
- Centerville850 ft
- Shasta Lake790 ft
- Happy Valley750 ft
- Bella Vista630 ft
- Redding570 ft
- Millville510 ft
- Palo Cedro470 ft
- Cottonwood460 ft
- Anderson430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California754th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Shasta County30th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Town Mountain4,300 ft
- Minnesota Mountain4,277 ft
- Bass Mountain2,786 ft
- O'Brien Mountain2,700 ft
- Bear Mountain, Shasta County2,627 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.
- Palo Cedro 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.