Forestville, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m400 ft 120 m330 ft 100 m210 ft 65 m90 ft 27 m28 ft 9 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
Forestville sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 110–320 ft
Lowest
28 ft 9 m
on the north side
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the northeast side
Average
200 ft 60 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Forestville spans about 492 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 28 ft9 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Forestville | 170 ft55 m |
| Airport (STS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 129 ft39 m |
| Average of all land | 200 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sonoma County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,264 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi
- Density
- 621 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4735° N, 122.8903° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Charles M Schulz/Sonoma County (STS) 129 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95436
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Occidental630 ft
- Forestville230 ft
- Sebastopol170 ft
- Graton160 ft
- Larkfield-Wikiup150 ft
- Santa Rosa150 ft
- Healdsburg150 ft
- Fulton140 ft
- Guerneville130 ft
- Windsor130 ft
- Monte Rio70 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,068th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sonoma County8th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cobb Mountain4,730 ft
- Mount Saint Helena4,342 ft
- Bald Mountain, Sonoma County2,730 ft
- Lookout Rock2,550 ft
- Mohrhardt Ridge2,320 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.
- Forestville 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.