South Oroville, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
370 ft 110 m320 ft 100 m300 ft 90 m260 ft 80 m220 ft 65 m200 ft 60 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
South Oroville sits at about 270 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 85 m
most residents: 230–310 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the northwest side
Highest
370 ft 110 m
on the northeast side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Oroville spans about 170 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 | 270 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 370 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (OVE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi west of the CDP boundary | 194 ft59 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the middle of South Oroville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Butte County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,204 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,216 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4808° N, 121.5426° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Oroville Municipal (OVE) 194 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95966
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rackerby1,150 ft
- Kelly Ridge1,050 ft
- Bangor710 ft
- Oroville East460 ft
- South Oroville270 ft
- Oroville250 ft
- Thermalito200 ft
- Palermo190 ft
- Richvale110 ft
- Honcut100 ft
- Biggs94 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,004th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Butte County20th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Fillmore7,710 ft
- Bald Eagle Mountain7,186 ft
- Claremont6,990 ft
- Bloomer Hill3,004 ft
- South Butte2,100 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.
- South Oroville 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.