Tuolumne City, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,930 ft 895 m2,820 ft 860 m2,760 ft 840 m2,650 ft 805 m2,530 ft 770 m2,480 ft 755 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
Tuolumne City sits at about 2,620 ft (800 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,620 ft 800 m
most residents: 2,570–2,730 ft
Lowest
2,480 ft 755 m
on the south side
Highest
2,930 ft 895 m
at the foot of the Red Hills
Average
2,680 ft 815 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tuolumne City spans about 450 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 | 2,620 ft800 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Red Hills | 2,930 ft895 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 2,480 ft755 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tuolumne City | 2,570 ft785 m |
| Airport (E45) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 2,933 ft894 m |
| Average of all land | 2,680 ft815 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Tuolumne County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,798 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 763 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9627° N, 120.2413° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Tuolumne River → San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Groveland/Yosemite (E45) 2,933 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95379
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sierra Village4,810 ft
- Mi-Wuk Village4,480 ft
- Cedar Ridge3,820 ft
- Twain Harte3,690 ft
- Soulsbyville2,970 ft
- Mono Vista2,820 ft
- Pine Mountain Lake2,750 ft
- Tuolumne City2,620 ft
- Phoenix Lake2,620 ft
- East Sonora2,170 ft
- Sonora1,940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California303rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Tuolumne County12th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Leavitt Peak11,573 ft
- Piute Mountain10,510 ft
- Dardanelles Cone9,527 ft
- Bullion Knob4,240 ft
- Bear Mountain, Calaveras County2,890 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.
- Tuolumne City 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.