Garnet, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,070 ft 325 m1,000 ft 305 m840 ft 255 m680 ft 210 m610 ft 185 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
Garnet sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 800–900 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the south side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
at the foot of the Little San Bernardino Mountains
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Garnet spans about 620 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Little San Bernardino Mountains | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (PSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi south of the CDP boundary | 477 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.5 mi south to north through the middle of Garnet.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Riverside County, California, United States
- Population
- 7,118 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.9 sq mi
- Density
- 904 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9304° N, 116.4879° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Whitewater River → Salton Sea basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Palm Springs International (PSP) 477 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 92240 92241
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Yucca Valley3,400 ft
- Morongo Valley2,740 ft
- Whitewater1,540 ft
- Sky Valley1,160 ft
- Desert Hot Springs1,100 ft
- Desert Edge1,000 ft
- Garnet850 ft
- Palm Springs450 ft
- Cathedral City370 ft
- Rancho Mirage280 ft
- Thousand Palms240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California588th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Riverside County48th highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Jacinto Peak10,780 ft
- Palm View Peak7,160 ft
- Thomas Mountain6,830 ft
- Quail Mountain5,820 ft
- Asbestos Mountain5,250 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.
- Garnet 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.