Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,460 ft 445 m1,130 ft 345 m970 ft 295 m640 ft 195 m310 ft 95 m150 ft 45 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
Lagunitas-Forest Knolls sits at about 580 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 175 m
most residents: 250–890 ft
Lowest
150 ft 45 m
on the west side
Highest
1,460 ft 445 m
on Barnabe Mountain
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lagunitas-Forest Knolls spans about 1,310 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 | 580 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Barnabe Mountain | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 150 ft45 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Tamalpais, 7.1 mi southeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 2,576 ft785 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the middle of Lagunitas-Forest Knolls.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Marin County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,924 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi
- Density
- 453 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0140° N, 122.6912° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 94933 94938
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- San Geronimo580 ft
- Lagunitas-Forest Knolls580 ft
- Woodacre490 ft
- Sleepy Hollow470 ft
- Fairfax220 ft
- Nicasio180 ft
- Lucas Valley-Marinwood180 ft
- Ross170 ft
- Bolinas170 ft
- San Anselmo120 ft
- Point Reyes Station75 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California689th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Marin County2nd highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Mountain, Sonoma County2,730 ft
- Mount Veeder2,680 ft
- Mount Tamalpais2,576 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 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.
- Lagunitas-Forest Knolls 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.