Yreka, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,550 ft 1,085 m3,260 ft 995 m3,120 ft 950 m2,830 ft 865 m2,540 ft 775 m2,400 ft 730 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Yreka sits at about 2,690 ft (820 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,690 ft 820 m
most residents: 2,610–2,850 ft
Lowest
2,400 ft 730 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,550 ft 1,085 m
at the foot of the Kilgore Hills
Average
2,760 ft 840 m
all land inside city limits
Yreka spans about 1,150 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 | 2,690 ft820 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Kilgore Hills | 3,550 ft1,085 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,400 ft730 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Yreka | 2,590 ft790 m |
| Airport (1O5) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi east of the city limits | 2,527 ft770 m |
| Average of all land | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Nearest peak Badger Mountain, 3.0 mi north of the city limits | 5,010 ft1,530 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Siskiyou County, California, United States
- Population
- 7,686 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 770 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7354° N, 122.6345° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Klamath River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Montague-Yreka Rohrer Field (1O5) 2,527 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96097
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Carrick3,480 ft
- Edgewood2,960 ft
- Etna2,930 ft
- Lake Shastina2,920 ft
- Greenview2,850 ft
- Gazelle2,790 ft
- Fort Jones2,750 ft
- Yreka2,690 ft
- Grenada2,570 ft
- Montague2,550 ft
- Hornbrook2,180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California298th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Siskiyou County16th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- McKinley Mountain6,230 ft
- Antelope Mountain, Siskiyou County6,097 ft
- Craggy Mountain5,530 ft
- Badger Mountain5,010 ft
- Paradise Craggy4,870 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.