Ocotillo, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m670 ft 205 m600 ft 185 m460 ft 140 m330 ft 100 m260 ft 80 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
Ocotillo sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
most residents: 340–470 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the east side
Highest
810 ft 245 m
at the foot of the Volcanic Hills
Average
450 ft 140 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ocotillo spans about 550 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Volcanic Hills | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 260 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ocotillo | 370 ft115 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Imperial County, California, United States
- Population
- 215 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.9 sq mi
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.7387° N, 115.9942° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Salton Sea basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 92259
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Laguna5,940 ft
- Boulevard3,710 ft
- Campo2,900 ft
- Jacumba2,800 ft
- Ocotillo390 ft
- Calexico6 ft
- Heber−14 ft
- El Centro−38 ft
- Seeley−40 ft
- El Centro Naval Air Facility−42 ft
- Imperial−55 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California820th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Imperial Countyhighest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cuyamaca Peak6,508 ft
- North Peak5,980 ft
- Granite Mountain5,636 ft
- Whale Peak5,350 ft
- Tecate Peak3,780 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.
- Ocotillo 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.