Princeton, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
100 ft 30 m95 ft 29 m91 ft 28 m83 ft 25 m75 ft 23 m71 ft 22 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
Princeton sits at about 80 ft (24 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
80 ft 24 m
most residents: 75–82 ft
Lowest
71 ft 22 m
on the southwest side
Highest
97 ft 30 m
on the north side
Average
76 ft 23 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Princeton is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 26 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 80 ft24 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 97 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 71 ft22 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Princeton | 82 ft25 m |
| Average of all land | 76 ft23 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Colusa County, California, United States
- Population
- 309 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 212 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4032° N, 122.0100° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 95932 95970
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,390th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Colusa County6th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Saint John Mountain6,730 ft
- Cold Spring Mountain, Lake County3,590 ft
- Bloomer Hill3,004 ft
- Jackson Mountain2,780 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.
- Princeton 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.