Rutherford, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
260 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m210 ft 65 m180 ft 55 m150 ft 45 m130 ft 40 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
Rutherford sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 150–190 ft
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the east side
Highest
260 ft 80 m
at the foot of the Yountville Hills
Average
170 ft 55 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rutherford spans about 130 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Yountville Hills | 260 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 130 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rutherford | 170 ft55 m |
| Airport (2O3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi north of the CDP boundary | 1,875 ft572 m |
| Average of all land | 170 ft55 m |
| Nearest peak Bald Mountain, Sonoma County, 3.8 mi west of the CDP boundary | 2,730 ft830 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Napa County, California, United States
- Population
- 115 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 68 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4585° N, 122.4225° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Angwin-Parrett Field (2O3) 1,875 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94573
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Angwin1,730 ft
- Deer Park680 ft
- Kenwood420 ft
- Glen Ellen310 ft
- St. Helena240 ft
- Eldridge180 ft
- Rutherford160 ft
- Oakville150 ft
- Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente140 ft
- Boyes Hot Springs120 ft
- Yountville110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,175th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Napa County7th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Vaca2,770 ft
- Bald Mountain, Sonoma County2,730 ft
- Mount Veeder2,680 ft
- Atlas Peak2,663 ft
- Cedar Roughs2,370 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.
- Rutherford 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.