California Polytechnic State University, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m480 ft 145 m330 ft 100 m260 ft 80 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
California Polytechnic State University sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
most residents: 390–430 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the southwest side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
at the foot of the Irish Hills
Average
380 ft 115 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
California Polytechnic State University spans about 580 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Irish Hills | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (SBP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi south of the CDP boundary | 212 ft65 m |
| Average of all land | 380 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the middle of California Polytechnic State University.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States
- Population
- 8,583 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 5,581 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.3028° N, 120.6581° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Luis Obispo County Regional (SBP) 212 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 93407 93410
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Santa Margarita1,010 ft
- Garden Farms960 ft
- California Polytechnic State University390 ft
- Edna270 ft
- Los Ranchos260 ft
- San Luis Obispo240 ft
- Avila Beach160 ft
- Los Osos96 ft
- Pismo Beach85 ft
- Morro Bay73 ft
- Grover Beach65 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California824th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Luis Obispo County12th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Machesna Mountain4,060 ft
- Pine Mountain, San Luis Obispo County3,580 ft
- Hi Mountain3,190 ft
- Pine Ridge, San Luis Obispo County3,190 ft
- Mount Lospe1,650 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.
- California Polytechnic State University 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. All public domain.