Ashland, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 45 m95 ft 29 m48 ft 15 m25 ft 8 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
Ashland sits at about 43 ft (13 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
43 ft 13 m
most residents: 33–65 ft
Lowest
25 ft 8 m
on the west side
Highest
210 ft 65 m
at the foot of the San Leandro Hills
Average
55 ft 17 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ashland spans about 185 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 | 43 ft13 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the San Leandro Hills | 210 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 25 ft8 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ashland | 44 ft13 m |
| Airport (SFO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi west of the CDP boundary | 13 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 55 ft17 m |
| Nearest peak Rocky Ridge, 8.0 mi north of the CDP boundary | 2,020 ft615 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Alameda County, California, United States
- Population
- 23,823 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 12,926 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6947° N, 122.1139° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Francisco International (SFO) 13 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 94578 94580
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Norris Canyon1,270 ft
- San Ramon550 ft
- Fairview370 ft
- Castro Valley270 ft
- Cherryland67 ft
- Hayward52 ft
- Ashland43 ft
- San Leandro38 ft
- San Lorenzo31 ft
- Union City19 ft
- Alameda15 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,507th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Alameda County14th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 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.
- Ashland 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.