Occidental, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m880 ft 265 m770 ft 235 m540 ft 165 m320 ft 95 m210 ft 65 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
Occidental sits at about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 190 m
most residents: 410–880 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the northwest side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Occidental spans about 890 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Occidental | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (STS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 129 ft39 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sonoma County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,132 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 228 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4074° N, 122.9483° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Charles M Schulz/Sonoma County (STS) 129 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 95419 95465 95472
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Occidental630 ft
- Bodega360 ft
- Forestville230 ft
- Sebastopol170 ft
- Graton160 ft
- Carmet150 ft
- Guerneville130 ft
- Sereno del Mar130 ft
- Valley Ford94 ft
- Monte Rio70 ft
- Salmon Creek66 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California662nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sonoma Countyhighest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Saint Helena4,342 ft
- Bald Mountain, Sonoma County2,730 ft
- Mount Veeder2,680 ft
- Lookout Rock2,550 ft
- Mohrhardt Ridge2,320 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.
- Occidental 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.