Georgetown, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,230 ft 985 m2,880 ft 880 m2,710 ft 825 m2,360 ft 720 m2,010 ft 610 m1,830 ft 560 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
Georgetown sits at about 2,630 ft (800 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,630 ft 800 m
most residents: 2,380–2,760 ft
Lowest
1,830 ft 560 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,230 ft 985 m
on Hotchkiss Hill
Average
2,580 ft 785 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Georgetown spans about 1,400 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 | 2,630 ft800 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Hotchkiss Hill | 3,230 ft985 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Georgetown | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Average of all land | 2,580 ft785 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in El Dorado County, California, United States
- Population
- 2,255 2020 Census
- Land area
- 15.1 sq mi
- Density
- 149 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9068° N, 120.8385° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- South Fork American River → Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 95634 95635
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Camino3,100 ft
- Foresthill3,030 ft
- Georgetown2,630 ft
- Placerville1,990 ft
- Meadow Vista1,770 ft
- Diamond Springs1,750 ft
- Auburn Lake Trails1,640 ft
- North Auburn1,420 ft
- Auburn1,350 ft
- Cold Springs1,270 ft
- Coloma860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California302nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in El Dorado County7th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dicks Peak9,950 ft
- Mount Price9,930 ft
- Granite Chief9,010 ft
- Basin Peak9,010 ft
- Snow Mountain, Placer County8,010 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.
- Georgetown 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.