University of California-Davis, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
80 ft 24 m69 ft 21 m64 ft 19 m53 ft 16 m42 ft 13 m37 ft 11 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
University of California-Davis sits at about 52 ft (16 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
52 ft 16 m
most residents: 48–58 ft
Lowest
37 ft 11 m
on the southwest side
Highest
80 ft 24 m
on the southeast side
Average
52 ft 16 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
University of California-Davis spans about 43 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 | 52 ft16 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 80 ft24 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 37 ft11 m |
| Airport (SMF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 27 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 52 ft16 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Yolo County, California, United States
- Population
- 8,525 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 5,189 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5415° N, 121.7624° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Sacramento International (SMF) 27 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95616
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Allendale210 ft
- Winters140 ft
- Hartley130 ft
- Monument Hills120 ft
- Yolo74 ft
- Dixon67 ft
- Woodland60 ft
- University of California-Davis52 ft
- Davis44 ft
- El Macero30 ft
- West Sacramento16 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,484th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Yolo County12th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Berryessa Peak3,062 ft
- Mount Vaca2,770 ft
- Mount Veeder2,680 ft
- Atlas Peak2,663 ft
- Cedar Roughs2,370 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 32 ft at 38.5382° N, 121.7690° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- University of California-Davis 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.