Glen Ellen, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,880 ft 575 m1,460 ft 445 m1,250 ft 380 m830 ft 250 m410 ft 125 m200 ft 60 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
Glen Ellen sits at about 310 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
310 ft 95 m
most residents: 260–690 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the south side
Highest
1,880 ft 570 m
at the foot of the Sonoma Mountains
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Glen Ellen spans about 1,680 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 | 310 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Sonoma Mountains | 1,880 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glen Ellen | 250 ft75 m |
| Airport (O69) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 90 ft27 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sonoma County, California, United States
- Population
- 714 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 340 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3641° N, 122.5241° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Petaluma Municipal (O69) 90 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95442
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kenwood420 ft
- Glen Ellen310 ft
- Eldridge180 ft
- Rutherford160 ft
- Sonoma State University150 ft
- Oakville150 ft
- Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente140 ft
- Boyes Hot Springs120 ft
- Temelec100 ft
- El Verano100 ft
- Sonoma77 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California947th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sonoma County7th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Mountain, Sonoma County2,730 ft
- Mount Veeder2,680 ft
- Atlas Peak2,663 ft
- Cedar Roughs2,370 ft
- Big Rock Ridge1,880 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.
- Glen Ellen 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.