Lake Elsinore, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,500 ft 765 m2,180 ft 665 m2,010 ft 615 m1,690 ft 515 m1,370 ft 415 m1,200 ft 365 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Lake Elsinore sits at about 1,400 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,400 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,270–1,630 ft
Lowest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,500 ft 765 m
on the north side
Average
1,490 ft 455 m
all land inside city limits
Lake Elsinore spans about 1,300 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 | 1,400 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,500 ft765 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake Elsinore | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Airport (L65) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,413 ft431 m |
| Average of all land | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Nearest peak Santiago Peak, 6.6 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 5,690 ft1,734 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Riverside County, California, United States
- Population
- 73,595 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.3 sq mi + 5.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,923 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.6681° N, 117.3273° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Temescal Wash → Santa Ana River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Perris Valley (L65) 1,413 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 92530 92532 92570
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Meadowbrook1,660 ft
- Good Hope1,630 ft
- Menifee1,450 ft
- Perris1,450 ft
- Canyon Lake1,430 ft
- Lake Elsinore1,400 ft
- Warm Springs1,360 ft
- Wildomar1,340 ft
- Lakeland Village1,310 ft
- Murrieta1,240 ft
- Temescal Valley1,230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California457th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Riverside County33rd highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Cahuilla Mountain5,610 ft
- Harrison Mountain4,730 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 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.