Spring Garden, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,360 ft 1,330 m4,230 ft 1,290 m4,160 ft 1,265 m4,020 ft 1,225 m3,880 ft 1,185 m3,810 ft 1,165 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
Spring Garden sits at about 3,960 ft (1,205 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,960 ft 1,205 m
few residents
Lowest
3,810 ft 1,165 m
on the northwest side
Highest
4,360 ft 1,330 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
3,980 ft 1,215 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Spring Garden spans about 550 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 3,960 ft1,205 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 4,360 ft1,330 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 3,810 ft1,165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Spring Garden | 4,000 ft1,220 m |
| Airport (2O1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi west of the CDP boundary | 3,419 ft1,042 m |
| Average of all land | 3,980 ft1,215 m |
| Nearest peak Claremont, 7.3 mi west of the CDP boundary | 6,990 ft2,130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,960 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.6 °F95.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
86% of sea level
25.9 inHg (87.6 kPa): each breath holds 14% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.1% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Plumas County, California, United States
- Population
- 19 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8949° N, 120.7861° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- North Fork Feather River → Feather River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Gansner Field (2O1) 3,419 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95971
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Johnsville5,740 ft
- Greenhorn4,590 ft
- Graeagle4,480 ft
- Plumas Eureka4,410 ft
- Blairsden4,390 ft
- Cromberg4,360 ft
- Spring Garden3,960 ft
- Taylorsville3,550 ft
- East Quincy3,510 ft
- Quincy3,430 ft
- Keddie3,180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California173rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Plumas County34th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Ingalls8,376 ft
- Mount Fillmore7,710 ft
- Wheeler Peak, Plumas County7,390 ft
- Mount Hough7,235 ft
- Claremont6,990 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Spring Garden 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.