West Modesto, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
86 ft 26 m77 ft 23 m72 ft 22 m63 ft 19 m54 ft 17 m50 ft 15 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
West Modesto sits at about 78 ft (24 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
78 ft 24 m
most residents: 65–83 ft
Lowest
50 ft 15 m
on the southwest side
Highest
86 ft 26 m
on the northeast side
Average
73 ft 22 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
West Modesto spans about 36 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 | 78 ft24 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 86 ft26 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 50 ft15 m |
| Airport (MOD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi east of the CDP boundary | 99 ft30 m |
| Average of all land | 73 ft22 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Stanislaus County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,965 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 4,319 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6182° N, 121.0265° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Modesto City-County-Harry Sham Field (MOD) 99 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 95351 95358
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Airport95 ft
- Ceres94 ft
- Modesto92 ft
- Parklawn90 ft
- Bystrom90 ft
- Bret Harte84 ft
- West Modesto78 ft
- Rouse78 ft
- Cowan76 ft
- Riverdale Park62 ft
- Monterey Park Tract62 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,396th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Stanislaus County27th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Eylar Mountain4,087 ft
- Discovery Peak3,830 ft
- Mount Stakes3,810 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.
- West Modesto 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.