Carmichael, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 45 m94 ft 29 m48 ft 15 m25 ft 8 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 CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carmichael sits at about 110 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
110 ft 35 m
most residents: 90–150 ft
Lowest
25 ft 8 m
on the south side
Highest
210 ft 65 m
on the northeast side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Carmichael 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 | 110 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 210 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 25 ft8 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carmichael | 120 ft35 m |
| Airport (SMF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi west of the CDP boundary | 27 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sacramento County, California, United States
- Population
- 79,793 2020 Census
- Land area
- 15.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,204 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6171° N, 121.3283° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Sacramento International (SMF) 27 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 95608 95628 95841
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fair Oaks210 ft
- Foothill Farms140 ft
- Gold River120 ft
- Carmichael110 ft
- Mather110 ft
- North Highlands100 ft
- Rancho Cordova97 ft
- McClellan Park82 ft
- Arden-Arcade60 ft
- Rosemont58 ft
- La Riviera52 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,294th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sacramento County10th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Berryessa Peak3,062 ft
- Mount Vaca2,770 ft
- Atlas Peak2,663 ft
- Cedar Roughs2,370 ft
- South Butte2,100 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.
- Carmichael 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.