Shasta Lake, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,860 ft 570 m1,560 ft 475 m1,410 ft 430 m1,100 ft 335 m800 ft 245 m650 ft 195 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
Shasta Lake sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 700–870 ft
Lowest
650 ft 195 m
on the south side
Highest
1,860 ft 570 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
860 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Shasta Lake spans about 1,210 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,860 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 650 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shasta Lake | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (RDD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi south of the city limits | 505 ft154 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Shasta County, California, United States
- Population
- 10,244 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.9 sq mi
- Density
- 939 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6804° N, 122.3708° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Redding Regional (RDD) 505 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 96003 96019
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- French Gulch1,350 ft
- Shasta1,010 ft
- Jones Valley990 ft
- Mountain Gate930 ft
- Centerville850 ft
- Shasta Lake790 ft
- Keswick770 ft
- Bella Vista630 ft
- Redding570 ft
- Millville510 ft
- Palo Cedro470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California606th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Shasta County24th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Schell Mountain5,223 ft
- Town Mountain4,300 ft
- Bass Mountain2,786 ft
- O'Brien Mountain2,700 ft
- Bear Mountain, Shasta County2,627 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.