Highland, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,920 ft 890 m2,450 ft 750 m2,220 ft 675 m1,760 ft 535 m1,300 ft 395 m1,060 ft 325 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
Highland sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,110–1,580 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,920 ft 890 m
at the foot of the Crafton Hills
Average
1,580 ft 480 m
all land inside city limits
Highland spans about 1,850 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Crafton Hills | 2,920 ft890 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Highland | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Airport (SBD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 1,159 ft353 m |
| Average of all land | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Nearest peak Harrison Mountain, 1.6 mi northeast of the city limits | 4,730 ft1,440 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in San Bernardino County, California, United States
- Population
- 56,499 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,040 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1283° N, 117.2087° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Santa Ana River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Bernardino International (SBD) 1,159 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 92346 92359 92410
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Running Springs6,130 ft
- Lake Arrowhead5,390 ft
- Crestline4,740 ft
- Mentone1,750 ft
- Redlands1,440 ft
- Muscoy1,400 ft
- Highland1,220 ft
- San Bernardino1,200 ft
- Loma Linda1,150 ft
- Grand Terrace1,060 ft
- Colton1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California508th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Bernardino County39th highest of 52
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Gorgonio Mountain11,490 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain9,956 ft
- Butler Peak8,490 ft
- Harrison Mountain4,730 ft
- Mount Jurupa2,225 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.