Redway, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m850 ft 260 m760 ft 230 m560 ft 170 m360 ft 110 m260 ft 80 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
Redway sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 360–520 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the north side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Redway spans about 790 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 260 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Redway | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
| Nearest peak Bear Buttes, 3.7 mi north of the CDP boundary | 2,820 ft860 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Humboldt County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,247 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 997 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1201° N, 123.8234° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- South Fork Eel River → Eel River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95560
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Leggett980 ft
- Benbow760 ft
- Garberville540 ft
- Alderpoint480 ft
- Redway460 ft
- Redcrest380 ft
- Miranda360 ft
- Shelter Cove340 ft
- Weott260 ft
- Phillipsville240 ft
- Myers Flat190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California762nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Humboldt County8th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pratt Mountain3,895 ft
- Brushy Mountain, Humboldt County3,540 ft
- Grasshopper Mountain3,379 ft
- Queen Peak2,820 ft
- Bear Buttes2,820 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.
- Redway 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.