Stones Landing, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,350 ft 1,630 m5,290 ft 1,610 m5,260 ft 1,600 m5,200 ft 1,585 m5,140 ft 1,565 m5,100 ft 1,555 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
Stones Landing sits at about 5,160 ft (1,570 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,160 ft 1,570 m
most residents: 5,150–5,190 ft
Lowest
5,110 ft 1,555 m
on the south side
Highest
5,350 ft 1,630 m
at the foot of the Bald Hills
Average
5,180 ft 1,580 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Stones Landing spans about 240 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 | 5,160 ft1,570 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Bald Hills | 5,350 ft1,630 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 5,110 ft1,555 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Stones Landing | 5,130 ft1,560 m |
| Airport (1Q2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 5,116 ft1,559 m |
| Average of all land | 5,180 ft1,580 m |
| Nearest peak Fredonyer Peak, 6.3 mi east of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,949 ft2,423 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,160 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.4 °F94.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.7 inHg (83.8 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lassen County, California, United States
- Population
- 86 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7124° N, 120.7233° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Eagle Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Spaulding (1Q2) 5,116 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96130
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Madeline5,330 ft
- Stones Landing5,160 ft
- Spaulding5,140 ft
- Westwood5,090 ft
- Clear Creek4,950 ft
- Janesville4,300 ft
- Little Valley4,230 ft
- Adin4,210 ft
- Susanville4,180 ft
- Johnstonville4,150 ft
- Litchfield4,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California64th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Lassen County2nd highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fredonyer Peak7,949 ft
- Antelope Mountain, Lassen County7,680 ft
- Roop Mountain7,610 ft
- Harvey Mountain7,355 ft
- Crater Mountain, Lassen County7,320 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).
- 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.
- Stones Landing 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.