El Dorado County, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,890 ft 3,320 m8,220 ft 2,505 m6,890 ft 2,100 m4,220 ft 1,290 m1,560 ft 475 m230 ft 70 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
El Dorado County averages about 4,140 ft (1,265 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 230 ft on the southwest side to 10,886 ft on Freel Peak.
Average elevation
4,140 ft 1,265 m
all land inside the county
Highest
10,886 ft 3,318 m
on Freel Peak
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the southwest side
El Dorado County spans about 10,660 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 4,140 ft1,265 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Freel Peak (NGS survey height) | 10,886 ft3,318 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 230 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
53 mi west to east through El Dorado Hills.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in California, United States
- Population
- 192,823 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,707.8 sq mi + 78.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 113 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Alpine County7,760 ft
- Douglas County, NV6,060 ft
- El Dorado County4,140 ft
- Placer County3,650 ft
- Amador County2,670 ft
- Sacramento County98 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in California11th highest of 57
- Counties in the United States250th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Freel Peak10,886 ft
- Monument Peak10,040 ft
- Dicks Peak9,950 ft
- Mount Price9,930 ft
- Waterhouse Peak9,501 ft
All 15 towns in El Dorado County by typical elevation
- Meyers6,370 ft
- Tahoma6,340 ft
- South Lake Tahoe6,270 ft
- Grizzly Flats3,900 ft
- Pollock Pines3,840 ft
- Camino3,100 ft
- Georgetown2,630 ft
- Placerville1,990 ft
- Diamond Springs1,750 ft
- Auburn Lake Trails1,640 ft
- Shingle Springs1,460 ft
- Cameron Park1,310 ft
- Cold Springs1,270 ft
- Coloma860 ft
- El Dorado Hills760 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.