Placentia, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
420 ft 125 m360 ft 110 m330 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m220 ft 70 m200 ft 60 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
Placentia sits at about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
280 ft 85 m
most residents: 210–340 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the southwest side
Highest
420 ft 125 m
at the foot of the East Coyote Hills
Average
290 ft 85 m
all land inside city limits
Placentia spans about 220 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 | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the East Coyote Hills | 420 ft125 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Placentia | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (SNA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi south of the city limits | 56 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 290 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Orange County, California, United States
- Population
- 53,395 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 7,932 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8722° N, 117.8703° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- John Wayne/Orange County (SNA) 56 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 92870
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orange Park Acres490 ft
- Yorba Linda480 ft
- Brea400 ft
- Villa Park350 ft
- El Modena310 ft
- La Habra310 ft
- Placentia280 ft
- Orange240 ft
- Fullerton210 ft
- Anaheim150 ft
- Buena Park72 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California999th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Orange County22nd highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 ft
- Mount Jurupa2,225 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, 190 ft at 33.8585° N, 117.8829° 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.