Paloma, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,480 ft 450 m1,420 ft 430 m1,390 ft 425 m1,330 ft 405 m1,270 ft 385 m1,240 ft 375 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
Paloma sits at about 1,370 ft (420 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,370 ft 420 m
few residents
Lowest
1,240 ft 375 m
on the north side
Highest
1,480 ft 450 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,370 ft 415 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Paloma spans about 240 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 | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paloma | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Airport (JAQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi north of the CDP boundary | 1,693 ft516 m |
| Average of all land | 1,370 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Calaveras County, California, United States
- Population
- 16 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 49 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2594° N, 120.7633° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Mokelumne River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Westover Field Amador County (JAQ) 1,693 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Martell1,560 ft
- Mokelumne Hill1,470 ft
- Sutter Creek1,410 ft
- Paloma1,370 ft
- Jackson1,290 ft
- San Andreas1,130 ft
- Valley Springs680 ft
- Rancho Calaveras550 ft
- Campo Seco520 ft
- Camanche North Shore330 ft
- Buena Vista310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California469th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Calaveras County17th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Round Top10,350 ft
- Deadwood Peak, Alpine County9,830 ft
- Dardanelles Cone9,527 ft
- Mokelumne Peak9,337 ft
- Bear Mountain, Calaveras County2,890 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.
- Paloma 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.