Salyer, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,380 ft 725 m1,890 ft 575 m1,650 ft 500 m1,160 ft 355 m680 ft 205 m440 ft 135 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
Salyer sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 630–1,140 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,380 ft 725 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Salyer spans about 1,940 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Salyer | 620 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Nearest peak Ironside Mountain, 5.8 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 5,280 ft1,610 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Trinity County, California, United States
- Population
- 389 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi
- Density
- 74 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8901° N, 123.5845° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Trinity River → Klamath River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95563
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Burnt Ranch2,100 ft
- Hyampom1,550 ft
- Weitchpec1,030 ft
- Salyer870 ft
- Trinity Village800 ft
- Willow Creek590 ft
- Hoopa400 ft
- Fieldbrook210 ft
- Blue Lake110 ft
- Indianola83 ft
- Arcata40 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California584th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Trinity County13th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spike Buck Mountain5,480 ft
- Ironside Mountain5,280 ft
- Sims Mountain4,470 ft
- Buck Buttes4,280 ft
- Sugar Pine Mountain3,910 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.
- Salyer 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. All public domain.