Garden Grove, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
140 ft 40 m110 ft 30 m92 ft 28 m62 ft 19 m33 ft 10 m18 ft 6 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Garden Grove sits at about 83 ft (25 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
83 ft 25 m
most residents: 51–110 ft
Lowest
18 ft 6 m
on the west side
Highest
140 ft 40 m
on the northeast side
Average
78 ft 24 m
all land inside city limits
Garden Grove spans about 122 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 | 83 ft25 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 140 ft40 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 18 ft6 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Garden Grove | 87 ft26 m |
| Airport (SNA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi southeast of the city limits | 56 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 78 ft24 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Orange County, California, United States
- Population
- 172,361 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.9 sq mi
- Density
- 9,605 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7739° N, 117.9414° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- John Wayne/Orange County (SNA) 56 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 92840 92841 92843 92844 92845
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orange240 ft
- Fullerton210 ft
- Anaheim150 ft
- Tustin110 ft
- Garden Grove83 ft
- Santa Ana79 ft
- Stanton64 ft
- Westminster41 ft
- Midway City40 ft
- Cypress40 ft
- Fountain Valley32 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,385th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Orange County34th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.