East Whittier, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
300 ft 95 m280 ft 85 m270 ft 80 m240 ft 75 m220 ft 65 m210 ft 65 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
East Whittier sits at about 250 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
250 ft 80 m
most residents: 240–290 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the west side
Highest
300 ft 95 m
on the southeast side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
East Whittier spans about 90 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 | 250 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 300 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the middle of East Whittier.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 10,394 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 9,536 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9250° N, 117.9891° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Long Beach (Daugherty Field) (LGB) 60 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 90604
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Habra Heights670 ft
- Hacienda Heights450 ft
- Brea400 ft
- La Habra310 ft
- Whittier270 ft
- East Whittier250 ft
- Fullerton210 ft
- South Whittier160 ft
- La Mirada150 ft
- Norwalk91 ft
- Buena Park72 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,030th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County85th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 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.
- East Whittier 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.