Scotia, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
240 ft 75 m190 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m120 ft 35 m73 ft 22 m48 ft 15 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
Scotia 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: 130–220 ft
Lowest
48 ft 15 m
on the north side
Highest
240 ft 75 m
at the foot of the Chalk Mountains
Average
120 ft 35 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Scotia spans about 192 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 Chalk Mountains | 240 ft75 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 48 ft15 m |
| Airport (FOT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi north of the CDP boundary | 393 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 120 ft35 m |
| Nearest peak Taylor Peak, 8.8 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 3,370 ft1,030 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the middle of Scotia.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Humboldt County, California, United States
- Population
- 681 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 913 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4818° N, 124.1024° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Eel River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Rohnerville (FOT) 393 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95565
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Redcrest380 ft
- Hydesville380 ft
- Weott260 ft
- Pine Hills210 ft
- Humboldt Hill170 ft
- Scotia160 ft
- Rio Dell130 ft
- Fortuna110 ft
- Loleta69 ft
- Ferndale44 ft
- Fields Landing7 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,171st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Humboldt County22nd highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Iaqua Buttes3,730 ft
- South Rainbow Peak3,620 ft
- Grasshopper Mountain3,379 ft
- Taylor Peak3,370 ft
- Cooskie Mountain2,950 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.
- Scotia 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.