Mill Valley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m820 ft 250 m690 ft 210 m410 ft 125 m140 ft 40 m0 ft 0 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
Mill Valley sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 10–430 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Richardson Bay
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
at the foot of the San Miguel Hills
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside city limits
Mill Valley spans about 1,100 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the San Miguel Hills | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Richardson Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mill Valley | 81 ft25 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Tamalpais, 1.4 mi northwest of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,576 ft785 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Marin County, California, United States
- Population
- 13,904 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,906 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9061° N, 122.5450° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 94941
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tamalpais-Homestead Valley280 ft
- Muir Beach210 ft
- Ross170 ft
- Mill Valley150 ft
- Kentfield130 ft
- Sausalito120 ft
- Marin City120 ft
- Strawberry80 ft
- Larkspur68 ft
- Corte Madera35 ft
- Alto31 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,215th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Marin County15th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Tamalpais2,576 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Scarpet Peak1,930 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 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.