Point Arena, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
310 ft 95 m240 ft 70 m200 ft 60 m120 ft 35 m39 ft 12 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Point Arena sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 93–240 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Pacific Ocean
Highest
310 ft 95 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
200 ft 60 m
all land inside city limits
Point Arena spans about 310 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 310 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Pacific Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Point Arena | 110 ft35 m |
| Average of all land | 200 ft60 m |
| Nearest peak Eureka Hill, 7.4 mi east of the city limits | 2,360 ft720 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Mendocino County, California, United States
- Population
- 449 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 328 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9088° N, 123.6931° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95468
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Anchor Bay820 ft
- Gualala490 ft
- Boonville370 ft
- Philo340 ft
- Comptche280 ft
- Little River270 ft
- Mendocino240 ft
- Point Arena230 ft
- Albion220 ft
- Sea Ranch130 ft
- Manchester93 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,063rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Mendocino County20th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Ridge, Mendocino County3,406 ft
- Sanel Mountain3,360 ft
- Cold Spring Mountain, Mendocino County2,739 ft
- Lookout Rock2,550 ft
- Eureka Hill2,360 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, −2 ft at 38.9174° N, 123.7254° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.