Penryn, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m700 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m560 ft 170 m470 ft 140 m420 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
Penryn sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 430–680 ft
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the south side
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the northeast side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Penryn spans about 380 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 420 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Penryn | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (AUN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,538 ft469 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Placer County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,150 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 604 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8521° N, 121.1694° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Auburn Municipal (AUN) 1,538 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95663
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North Auburn1,420 ft
- Auburn1,350 ft
- Newcastle810 ft
- Penryn530 ft
- Loomis370 ft
- Granite Bay360 ft
- Folsom350 ft
- Rocklin230 ft
- Citrus Heights160 ft
- Lincoln150 ft
- Roseville150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California714th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Placer County15th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dicks Peak9,950 ft
- Mount Price9,930 ft
- Granite Chief9,010 ft
- Snow Mountain, Placer County8,010 ft
- South Butte2,100 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.
- Penryn 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.