El Modena, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
320 ft 100 m310 ft 95 m310 ft 95 m300 ft 90 m290 ft 90 m280 ft 85 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
El Modena sits at about 310 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
310 ft 95 m
most residents: 300–320 ft
Lowest
280 ft 85 m
near the middle
Highest
320 ft 100 m
at the foot of the Peralta Hills
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
El Modena spans about 40 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 | 310 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Peralta Hills | 320 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 280 ft85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for El Modena | 290 ft90 m |
| Airport (SNA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.4 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 56 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Orange County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,417 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 16,833 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7878° N, 117.8095° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- John Wayne/Orange County (SNA) 56 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orange Park Acres490 ft
- Yorba Linda480 ft
- Villa Park350 ft
- El Modena310 ft
- Placentia280 ft
- Orange240 ft
- North Tustin210 ft
- Anaheim150 ft
- Tustin110 ft
- Garden Grove83 ft
- Santa Ana79 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California953rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Orange County20th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 ft
- Mount Jurupa2,225 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.
- El Modena 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.