Emerald Lake Hills, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 265 m680 ft 205 m580 ft 180 m400 ft 120 m210 ft 65 m120 ft 35 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
Emerald Lake Hills sits at about 470 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 140 m
most residents: 300–720 ft
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the northeast side
Highest
860 ft 265 m
on the southwest side
Average
440 ft 135 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Emerald Lake Hills spans about 740 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 | 470 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 860 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 120 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Emerald Lake Hills | 530 ft165 m |
| Airport (SFO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 13 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 440 ft135 m |
| Nearest peak Scarpet Peak, 8.9 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 1,930 ft590 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Mateo County, California, United States
- Population
- 4,406 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,728 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4647° N, 122.2680° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Francisco International (SFO) 13 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94062
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Portola Valley630 ft
- Highlands510 ft
- Emerald Lake Hills470 ft
- Woodside450 ft
- Belmont270 ft
- West Menlo Park130 ft
- San Carlos120 ft
- Atherton61 ft
- Menlo Park60 ft
- North Fair Oaks28 ft
- Redwood City23 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California760th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Mateo County4th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Bielawski3,234 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Scarpet Peak1,930 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.
- Emerald Lake Hills 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.