Pico Rivera, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
250 ft 75 m220 ft 65 m200 ft 60 m170 ft 55 m140 ft 45 m130 ft 40 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
Pico Rivera sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 50 m
most residents: 150–190 ft
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the south side
Highest
250 ft 75 m
at the foot of the West Coyote Hills
Average
170 ft 50 m
all land inside city limits
Pico Rivera spans about 120 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 | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the West Coyote Hills | 250 ft75 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 130 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pico Rivera | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.7 mi south of the city limits | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 170 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 59,363 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.3 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 7,139 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9831° N, 118.0967° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Long Beach (Daugherty Field) (LGB) 60 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 90601 90660
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rose Hills570 ft
- South San Gabriel340 ft
- Whittier270 ft
- Montebello210 ft
- Pico Rivera170 ft
- South Whittier160 ft
- West Whittier-Los Nietos160 ft
- Commerce150 ft
- Santa Fe Springs140 ft
- Bell Gardens130 ft
- Downey110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,160th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County94th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waterman Mountain8,030 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 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, 120 ft at 33.9754° N, 118.1174° 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.