Parksdale, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
300 ft 90 m290 ft 90 m280 ft 85 m280 ft 85 m270 ft 80 m260 ft 80 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
Parksdale sits at about 270 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 85 m
most residents: 270–280 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the west side
Highest
290 ft 85 m
on the east side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Parksdale spans about 30 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 | 270 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 290 ft85 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 260 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Parksdale | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (MAE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 255 ft78 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Madera County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,234 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,863 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9472° N, 120.0229° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Madera Municipal (MAE) 255 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93638
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Washington380 ft
- Rolling Hills, Madera County370 ft
- Bonadelle Ranchos360 ft
- Madera Ranchos340 ft
- Madera Acres280 ft
- Parksdale270 ft
- Madera270 ft
- Parkwood260 ft
- Biola250 ft
- Fairmead250 ft
- La Vina230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,006th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Madera County12th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Goat Mountain, Madera County4,960 ft
- Deadwood Peak, Madera County4,543 ft
- Black Mountain, Fresno County3,598 ft
- Jesse Morrow Mountain2,100 ft
- Campbell Mountain1,756 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, 260 ft at 36.9401° N, 120.0274° 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.
- Parksdale 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.