Yuba County, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,820 ft 1,470 m3,620 ft 1,105 m3,020 ft 920 m1,820 ft 555 m620 ft 190 m25 ft 8 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Yuba County averages about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 25 ft on the southwest side to 4,820 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,820 ft 1,470 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
25 ft 8 m
on the southwest side
Yuba County spans about 4,795 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 4,820 ft1,470 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 25 ft8 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
17 mi west to east through Linda.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in California, United States
- Population
- 87,469 2024 est.
- Land area
- 632.0 sq mi + 12.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 138 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform regions
- Pacific Border 69%, Cascade-sierra Mountains 31%
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Sierra County5,730 ft
- Plumas County5,330 ft
- Nevada County4,080 ft
- Placer County3,650 ft
- Butte County1,560 ft
- Yuba County1,040 ft
- Sutter County80 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in California39th highest of 57
- Counties in the United States1,335th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Barton Hill, Yuba County3,910 ft
- Big Hill, Yuba County3,749 ft
- Pittsburgh Hill3,740 ft
- Pike County Peak3,713 ft
- Mount Hope, Yuba County3,630 ft
All 11 towns in Yuba County by typical elevation
- Camptonville2,810 ft
- Challenge-Brownsville2,430 ft
- Dobbins1,860 ft
- Smartsville700 ft
- Loma Rica440 ft
- Beale AFB290 ft
- Wheatland85 ft
- Linda68 ft
- Marysville65 ft
- Olivehurst63 ft
- Plumas Lake47 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 20 ft at 39.2057° N, 121.4993° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.