Randsburg, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,430 ft 1,350 m4,090 ft 1,245 m3,920 ft 1,195 m3,580 ft 1,090 m3,240 ft 985 m3,070 ft 935 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
Randsburg sits at about 3,590 ft (1,095 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,590 ft 1,095 m
few residents
Lowest
3,070 ft 935 m
on the northwest side
Highest
4,430 ft 1,350 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,610 ft 1,100 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Randsburg spans about 1,360 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 | 3,590 ft1,095 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 4,430 ft1,350 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 3,070 ft935 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Randsburg | 3,490 ft1,065 m |
| Average of all land | 3,610 ft1,100 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,590 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.3 °F96.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.2 inHg (88.8 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 45 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.3686° N, 117.6581° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Koehn Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 93554
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Randsburg3,590 ft
- Johannesburg3,560 ft
- Pearsonville2,550 ft
- Boron2,450 ft
- Inyokern2,450 ft
- China Lake Acres2,420 ft
- Ridgecrest Heights2,420 ft
- California City2,390 ft
- Ridgecrest2,300 ft
- North Edwards2,300 ft
- Searles Valley1,680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California198th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County11th highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob5,431 ft
- Red Mountain, San Bernardino County5,263 ft
- Black Mountain, Kern County5,180 ft
- Dome Mountain4,960 ft
- Fremont Peak4,550 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Randsburg 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.