Potter Valley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,060 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 300 m930 ft 280 m900 ft 275 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
Potter Valley sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
950 ft 290 m
most residents: 940–970 ft
Lowest
900 ft 275 m
on the south side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Potter Valley spans about 220 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 | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 900 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Potter Valley | 950 ft290 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
| Nearest peak Horse Mountain, 6.5 mi east of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 4,686 ft1,428 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mendocino County, California, United States
- Population
- 665 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3221° N, 123.1131° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Russian River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95469
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brooktrails1,860 ft
- Willits1,400 ft
- Nice1,380 ft
- North Lakeport1,360 ft
- Lakeport1,350 ft
- Upper Lake1,340 ft
- Potter Valley950 ft
- Redwood Valley790 ft
- Calpella720 ft
- Ukiah630 ft
- Talmage620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California569th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Mendocino County6th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Signal Peak6,179 ft
- Horse Mountain4,686 ft
- Cow Mountain3,940 ft
- Pine Ridge, Mendocino County3,406 ft
- Laughlin Range3,350 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.
- Potter Valley 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.