Rowland Heights, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 435 m1,180 ft 360 m1,050 ft 320 m810 ft 245 m560 ft 170 m440 ft 135 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
Rowland Heights sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 460–800 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,420 ft 435 m
on the southeast side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rowland Heights spans about 980 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rowland Heights | 530 ft160 m |
| Airport (FUL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 96 ft29 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 48,231 2020 Census
- Land area
- 13.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3,688 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9761° N, 117.9053° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Fullerton Municipal (FUL) 96 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 91748 91789
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Habra Heights670 ft
- Walnut660 ft
- Rowland Heights530 ft
- Hacienda Heights450 ft
- South San Jose Hills440 ft
- Brea400 ft
- Valinda380 ft
- La Puente330 ft
- Industry320 ft
- La Habra310 ft
- East Whittier250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California717th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County55th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cucamonga Peak8,850 ft
- Waterman Mountain8,030 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 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.
- Rowland Heights 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.