Ridgecrest, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,220 ft 980 m2,960 ft 905 m2,830 ft 865 m2,570 ft 785 m2,310 ft 705 m2,180 ft 665 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ridgecrest sits at about 2,300 ft (700 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,300 ft 700 m
most residents: 2,270–2,370 ft
Lowest
2,180 ft 665 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,220 ft 980 m
at the foot of the Summit Range
Average
2,320 ft 710 m
all land inside city limits
Ridgecrest spans about 1,040 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 | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Summit Range | 3,220 ft980 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ridgecrest | 2,290 ft700 m |
| Airport (IYK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi west of the city limits | 2,457 ft749 m |
| Average of all land | 2,320 ft710 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kern County, California, United States
- Population
- 28,373 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.9 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,360 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6225° N, 117.6709° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Mirror Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Inyokern (IYK) 2,457 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93555
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Randsburg3,590 ft
- Johannesburg3,560 ft
- Homewood Canyon3,330 ft
- Pearsonville2,550 ft
- Inyokern2,450 ft
- China Lake Acres2,420 ft
- Ridgecrest Heights2,420 ft
- Ridgecrest2,300 ft
- Valley Wells2,190 ft
- Trona1,730 ft
- Searles Valley1,680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California344th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Kern County31st highest of 88
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Owens Peak8,452 ft
- Argus Peak6,540 ft
- Red Mountain, San Bernardino County5,263 ft
- Black Mountain, Kern County5,180 ft
- Dome Mountain4,960 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.