Riverbank, CA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m130 ft 40 m100 ft 30 m83 ft 25 m73 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Riverbank sits at about 130 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
130 ft 40 m
most residents: 130–140 ft
Lowest
72 ft 22 m
on the west side
Highest
160 ft 50 m
on the west side
Average
130 ft 40 m
all land inside city limits
Riverbank spans about 88 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 | 130 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 160 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 72 ft22 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Riverbank | 140 ft45 m |
| Airport (O27) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi east of the city limits | 237 ft72 m |
| Average of all land | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Stanislaus County, California, United States
- Population
- 25,625 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi
- Density
- 5,441 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7360° N, 120.9355° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Oakdale (O27) 237 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 95357 95367
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Oakdale200 ft
- Oakdale160 ft
- Valley Home150 ft
- Riverbank130 ft
- Escalon120 ft
- Empire120 ft
- Del Rio100 ft
- Airport95 ft
- Modesto92 ft
- Bystrom90 ft
- Salida69 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,245th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Stanislaus County10th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Eylar Mountain4,087 ft
- Discovery Peak3,830 ft
- Mount Stakes3,810 ft
- Bear Mountain, Calaveras County2,890 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.