Oak Shores, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,060 ft 625 m1,730 ft 530 m1,570 ft 480 m1,250 ft 380 m930 ft 280 m770 ft 235 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
Oak Shores sits at about 1,010 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 305 m
most residents: 920–1,190 ft
Lowest
760 ft 235 m
on the east side
Highest
2,060 ft 625 m
on Tierra Redonda Mountain
Average
1,190 ft 360 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Oak Shores 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 | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Tierra Redonda Mountain | 2,060 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 760 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Nearest peak Pine Mountain, San Luis Obispo County, 6.5 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 3,580 ft1,095 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the middle of Oak Shores.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States
- Population
- 316 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 62 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7518° N, 120.9885° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Nacimiento River → Salinas River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 93426
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oak Shores1,010 ft
- Lake Nacimiento990 ft
- Lockwood, Monterey County980 ft
- Templeton830 ft
- El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)800 ft
- San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County620 ft
- Bradley540 ft
- San Ardo440 ft
- Cambria240 ft
- San Simeon69 ft
- Cayucos57 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California555th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Luis Obispo County4th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Junipero Serra Peak5,857 ft
- Pinyon Peak5,250 ft
- Pine Mountain, San Luis Obispo County3,580 ft
- Williams Hill2,810 ft
- Pine Top Mountain2,640 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.
- Oak Shores 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.