Garey, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m510 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m360 ft 110 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
Garey sits at about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
380 ft 115 m
most residents: 380–450 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the northeast side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the west side
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Garey spans about 200 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Garey | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (SMX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi west of the CDP boundary | 261 ft80 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft130 m |
| Nearest peak Tepusquet Peak, 6.8 mi east of the CDP boundary | 3,240 ft985 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Population
- 72 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 57 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.8886° N, 120.3149° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field (SMX) 261 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93454
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Los Alamos590 ft
- Vandenberg AFB470 ft
- Sisquoc440 ft
- Orcutt390 ft
- Garey380 ft
- Vandenberg Village360 ft
- Nipomo340 ft
- Mission Hills320 ft
- Casmalia270 ft
- Santa Maria220 ft
- Guadalupe84 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California846th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Barbara County12th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ranger Peak4,580 ft
- Tepusquet Peak3,240 ft
- Pine Ridge, San Luis Obispo County3,190 ft
- Oak Mountain2,060 ft
- Mount Lospe1,650 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.
- Garey 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. All public domain.