Yuba City, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
89 ft 27 m76 ft 23 m70 ft 21 m57 ft 17 m44 ft 13 m37 ft 11 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
Yuba City sits at about 57 ft (17 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
57 ft 17 m
most residents: 52–63 ft
Lowest
37 ft 11 m
near the middle
Highest
89 ft 27 m
near the middle
Average
56 ft 17 m
all land inside city limits
Yuba City spans about 52 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 | 57 ft17 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 89 ft27 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 37 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Yuba City | 59 ft18 m |
| Airport (O52) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.0 mi southeast of the city limits | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 56 ft17 m |
| Nearest peak South Butte, 7.8 mi northwest of the city limits | 2,100 ft640 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sutter County, California, United States
- Population
- 69,148 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,173 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1404° N, 121.6169° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Sutter County (O52) 60 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 95991 95993
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Beale AFB290 ft
- Honcut100 ft
- Wheatland85 ft
- City of Live Oak78 ft
- Sutter73 ft
- Linda68 ft
- Marysville65 ft
- Olivehurst63 ft
- Yuba City57 ft
- Plumas Lake47 ft
- Rio Oso46 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,462nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sutter County3rd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cold Spring Mountain, Lake County3,590 ft
- Berryessa Peak3,062 ft
- Bloomer Hill3,004 ft
- Jackson Mountain2,780 ft
- South Butte2,100 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).
- 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, 0 ft at 39.1043° N, 121.6137° 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.
- 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.