Boulder Creek, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,560 ft 780 m2,030 ft 615 m1,760 ft 535 m1,220 ft 370 m680 ft 210 m420 ft 125 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
Boulder Creek sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 480–930 ft
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the south side
Highest
2,560 ft 780 m
on the southwest side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Boulder Creek spans about 2,140 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,560 ft780 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 420 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Boulder Creek | 490 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Santa Cruz County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,429 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi
- Density
- 723 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1261° N, 122.1222° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- San Lorenzo River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95006
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bonny Doon1,510 ft
- Lexington Hills1,400 ft
- Lompico890 ft
- Zayante830 ft
- Scotts Valley640 ft
- Brookdale640 ft
- Boulder Creek610 ft
- Ben Lomond500 ft
- Mount Hermon500 ft
- Felton400 ft
- Davenport110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California674th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Cruz County7th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 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).
- 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, 410 ft at 37.1135° N, 122.1149° 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.
- Boulder Creek 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.