Sutter Creek, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,690 ft 515 m1,480 ft 450 m1,380 ft 420 m1,170 ft 355 m960 ft 295 m860 ft 260 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
Sutter Creek sits at about 1,410 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,410 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,200–1,540 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the south side
Average
1,340 ft 410 m
all land inside city limits
Sutter Creek spans about 830 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 | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sutter Creek | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Airport (JAQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.2 mi south of the city limits | 1,693 ft516 m |
| Average of all land | 1,340 ft410 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Amador County, California, United States
- Population
- 2,709 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,004 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3930° N, 120.8024° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Westover Field Amador County (JAQ) 1,693 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95685
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pine Grove2,540 ft
- Fiddletown1,810 ft
- Martell1,560 ft
- Mokelumne Hill1,470 ft
- Sutter Creek1,410 ft
- Jackson1,290 ft
- Plymouth1,090 ft
- Amador City1,050 ft
- Drytown840 ft
- Buena Vista310 ft
- Ione300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California456th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Amador County11th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Round Top10,350 ft
- Mount Price9,930 ft
- Deadwood Peak, Alpine County9,830 ft
- Mokelumne Peak9,337 ft
- Bear Mountain, Calaveras County2,890 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.