Lakeside, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 320 m870 ft 265 m780 ft 240 m610 ft 185 m440 ft 135 m350 ft 105 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
Lakeside sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 400–730 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the west side
Highest
1,040 ft 320 m
at the foot of the Fletcher Hills
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lakeside spans about 690 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Fletcher Hills | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lakeside | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (SEE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 388 ft118 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
| Nearest peak El Cajon Mountain, 4.3 mi northeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 3,677 ft1,121 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 21,152 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,053 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.8573° N, 116.9222° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Gillespie Field (SEE) 388 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 92021 92040
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crest1,540 ft
- Harbison Canyon1,210 ft
- Granite Hills650 ft
- Casa de Oro-Mount Helix640 ft
- Winter Gardens620 ft
- Eucalyptus Hills600 ft
- Lakeside590 ft
- Rancho San Diego560 ft
- El Cajon480 ft
- Bostonia470 ft
- Santee390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California685th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego County28th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Viejas Mountain4,189 ft
- Lyons Peak3,741 ft
- El Cajon Mountain3,677 ft
- Woodson Mountain2,901 ft
- San Miguel Mountain2,569 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.
- Lakeside 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.