Paxton, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,170 ft 965 m3,080 ft 940 m3,030 ft 925 m2,940 ft 895 m2,850 ft 870 m2,800 ft 855 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
Paxton sits at about 2,910 ft (890 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,910 ft 890 m
few residents
Lowest
2,800 ft 855 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,170 ft 965 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,930 ft 895 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Paxton spans about 370 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 | 2,910 ft890 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,170 ft965 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paxton | 3,000 ft915 m |
| Airport (2O1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi south of the CDP boundary | 3,419 ft1,042 m |
| Average of all land | 2,930 ft895 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Hough, 5.1 mi east of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,235 ft2,205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Plumas County, California, United States
- Population
- 0 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0379° N, 120.9950° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- North Fork Feather River → Feather River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Gansner Field (2O1) 3,419 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95971
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crescent Mills4,050 ft
- Meadow Valley3,750 ft
- Greenville3,600 ft
- Taylorsville3,550 ft
- East Quincy3,510 ft
- Quincy3,430 ft
- Indian Falls3,360 ft
- Keddie3,180 ft
- Caribou3,030 ft
- Paxton2,910 ft
- Twain2,790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California263rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Plumas County44th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Hough7,235 ft
- Claremont6,990 ft
- Red Hill6,352 ft
- Rush Creek Hill6,350 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill6,340 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.
- Paxton 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.