Philo, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m920 ft 280 m790 ft 240 m540 ft 165 m280 ft 85 m150 ft 45 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
Philo sits at about 340 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
340 ft 105 m
most residents: 220–380 ft
Lowest
150 ft 45 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
at the foot of the Flynn Hills
Average
320 ft 95 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Philo spans about 1,020 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 | 340 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Flynn Hills | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 150 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Philo | 330 ft100 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft95 m |
| Nearest peak Cold Spring Mountain, Mendocino County, 4.3 mi southwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 2,739 ft835 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mendocino County, California, United States
- Population
- 319 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 154 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0657° N, 123.4450° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95466
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Anchor Bay820 ft
- Redwood Valley790 ft
- Calpella720 ft
- Ukiah630 ft
- Talmage620 ft
- Hopland500 ft
- Boonville370 ft
- Philo340 ft
- Comptche280 ft
- Point Arena230 ft
- Manchester93 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California911th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Mendocino County15th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Ridge, Mendocino County3,406 ft
- Sanel Mountain3,360 ft
- Laughlin Range3,350 ft
- Cold Spring Mountain, Mendocino County2,739 ft
- Eureka Hill2,360 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.
- Philo 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.