Placerville, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,570 ft 785 m2,310 ft 705 m2,180 ft 665 m1,920 ft 585 m1,660 ft 505 m1,530 ft 465 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
Placerville sits at about 1,990 ft (605 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,990 ft 605 m
most residents: 1,730–2,180 ft
Lowest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the west side
Highest
2,570 ft 785 m
on the east side
Average
2,000 ft 610 m
all land inside city limits
Placerville spans about 1,040 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 | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 2,570 ft785 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Placerville | 1,860 ft570 m |
| Airport (PVF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi east of the city limits | 2,586 ft788 m |
| Average of all land | 2,000 ft610 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in El Dorado County, California, United States
- Population
- 10,695 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,831 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7296° N, 120.7985° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Placerville (PVF) 2,586 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95667
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pollock Pines3,840 ft
- Camino3,100 ft
- Georgetown2,630 ft
- Placerville1,990 ft
- River Pines1,990 ft
- Diamond Springs1,750 ft
- Auburn Lake Trails1,640 ft
- Shingle Springs1,460 ft
- Cameron Park1,310 ft
- Cold Springs1,270 ft
- Coloma860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California381st highest of 1,622
- Towns in El Dorado County8th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Round Top10,350 ft
- Dicks Peak9,950 ft
- Mount Price9,930 ft
- Mokelumne Peak9,337 ft
- Snow Mountain, Placer County8,010 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).
- 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.