Ruth, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,070 ft 1,850 m5,210 ft 1,590 m4,780 ft 1,455 m3,920 ft 1,195 m3,050 ft 930 m2,620 ft 800 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ruth sits at about 2,830 ft (865 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,830 ft 865 m
most residents: 2,690–3,210 ft
Lowest
2,620 ft 800 m
on the northwest side
Highest
6,073 ft 1,851 m
on Chinquapin Butte
Average
3,600 ft 1,095 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ruth spans about 3,450 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 | 2,830 ft865 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Chinquapin Butte | 6,073 ft1,851 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 2,620 ft800 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ruth | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Airport (T42) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,781 ft848 m |
| Average of all land | 3,600 ft1,095 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Trinity County, California, United States
- Population
- 254 2020 Census
- Land area
- 38.9 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2696° N, 123.3214° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Mad River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Ruth (T42) 2,781 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95552
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Post Mountain3,440 ft
- Mad River2,910 ft
- Ruth2,830 ft
- Platina2,540 ft
- Hayfork2,430 ft
- Hyampom1,550 ft
- Benbow760 ft
- Garberville540 ft
- Alderpoint480 ft
- Miranda360 ft
- Phillipsville240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California273rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Trinity County4th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Yolla Bolly Mountains7,868 ft
- Chinquapin Butte6,073 ft
- Blake Mountain5,909 ft
- Signal Peak5,820 ft
- Lake Mountain4,130 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.
- Ruth 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.