El Sobrante, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m580 ft 175 m490 ft 150 m320 ft 100 m150 ft 45 m70 ft 21 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
El Sobrante sits at about 240 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
240 ft 70 m
most residents: 130–350 ft
Lowest
70 ft 21 m
on the southwest side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the east side
Average
250 ft 75 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
El Sobrante spans about 680 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 | 240 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 70 ft21 m |
| Town center USGS map point for El Sobrante | 200 ft60 m |
| Average of all land | 250 ft75 m |
| Nearest peak Vollmer Peak, 5.1 mi southeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 1,916 ft584 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Population
- 15,524 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 5,014 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9771° N, 122.2952° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 94803
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Richmond Heights330 ft
- El Sobrante240 ft
- Hercules160 ft
- Pinole140 ft
- Tara Hills98 ft
- Rollingwood78 ft
- Richmond54 ft
- Montalvin Manor53 ft
- Bayview, Contra Costa County47 ft
- San Pablo47 ft
- North Richmond14 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,055th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Contra Costa County20th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Mount Tamalpais2,576 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 ft
- Big Rock Ridge1,880 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 Sobrante 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.