Swall Meadows, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,340 ft 3,455 m9,780 ft 2,980 m9,000 ft 2,745 m7,440 ft 2,265 m5,880 ft 1,790 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
Swall Meadows sits at about 6,460 ft (1,970 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,460 ft 1,970 m
most residents: 6,410–6,610 ft
Lowest
5,100 ft 1,555 m
on the southeast side
Highest
11,340 ft 3,455 m
at the foot of the Tungsten Hills
Average
7,100 ft 2,165 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Swall Meadows spans about 6,240 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 | 6,460 ft1,970 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Tungsten Hills | 11,340 ft3,455 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 5,100 ft1,555 m |
| Airport (MMH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 7,135 ft2,175 m |
| Average of all land | 7,100 ft2,165 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Morgan, Mono County, 5.5 mi west of the CDP boundary | 12,990 ft3,960 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the middle of Swall Meadows.
Altitude Effects
What 6,460 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.0 °F93.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.6 inHg (79.8 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mono County, California, United States
- Population
- 178 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi
- Density
- 40 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5104° N, 118.6396° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Owens River → Owens Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Mammoth Yosemite (MMH) 7,135 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93514
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Aspen Springs7,710 ft
- McGee Creek7,640 ft
- Sunny Slopes7,110 ft
- Crowley Lake6,980 ft
- Swall Meadows6,460 ft
- Paradise, Mono County5,100 ft
- Round Valley4,820 ft
- Mesa4,580 ft
- West Bishop4,280 ft
- Chalfant4,270 ft
- Dixon Lane-MeadowCreek4,190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California22nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Mono County12th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Morgan, Inyo County13,710 ft
- Mount Tom13,620 ft
- Red Slate Mountain13,150 ft
- Mount Morgan, Mono County12,990 ft
- Red Mountain, Mono County11,470 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.
- Swall Meadows 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. All public domain.