Pala Reservation, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,730 ft 1,140 m2,860 ft 870 m2,420 ft 740 m1,550 ft 470 m680 ft 205 m240 ft 75 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pala Reservation averages about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 240 ft on the west side to 3,730 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
3,730 ft 1,140 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
240 ft 75 m
on the west side
Pala Reservation spans about 3,490 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 | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the northeast side | 3,730 ft1,140 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the west side | 240 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.4 mi west to east through Pala.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in California, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 1,533 2020 Census
- Land area
- 22.4 sq mi
- Density
- 68 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Pauma and Yuima Reservation3,950 ft
- La Jolla Reservation2,670 ft
- San Pasqual Reservation1,760 ft
- Pechanga Reservation1,560 ft
- Rincon Reservation1,290 ft
- Pala Reservation1,230 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in California62nd highest of 104
- Tribal lands in the United States227th highest of 704
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pala Mountain2,130 ft
- Tourmaline Queen Mountain1,910 ft
- Heriot Mountain1,760 ft
The one town in the reservation
- Pala420 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, 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.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands 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 reservation 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 reservation.
- 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); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.