Milpitas, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,250 ft 380 m940 ft 285 m790 ft 240 m470 ft 145 m160 ft 50 m5 ft 2 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
Milpitas sits at about 37 ft (11 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
37 ft 11 m
most residents: 15–120 ft
Lowest
5 ft 2 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,250 ft 380 m
at the foot of the Los Buellis Hills
Average
160 ft 50 m
all land inside city limits
Milpitas spans about 1,245 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 | 37 ft11 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Los Buellis Hills | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 5 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Milpitas | 19 ft6 m |
| Airport (SJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi south of the city limits | 62 ft19 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft50 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Allison, 2.4 mi north of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,664 ft812 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Population
- 79,746 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.5 sq mi
- Density
- 5,915 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4283° N, 121.9066° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mineta San Jose International (SJC) 62 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95035
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Foothills310 ft
- Cupertino260 ft
- Campbell210 ft
- Alum Rock160 ft
- San Jose160 ft
- Fruitdale160 ft
- Burbank, Santa Clara County120 ft
- Sunnyvale100 ft
- Santa Clara81 ft
- Fremont52 ft
- Milpitas37 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,521st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Clara County23rd highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Discovery Peak3,830 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 5 ft at 37.4537° N, 121.9249° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.