San Joaquin County, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,630 ft 1,105 m2,710 ft 825 m2,260 ft 690 m1,350 ft 410 m430 ft 130 m−23 ft −7 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
San Joaquin County averages about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 23 ft below sea level on the northwest side to 3,630 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
170 ft 50 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,630 ft 1,105 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
−23 ft −7 m
on the northwest side
San Joaquin County spans about 3,653 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 3,630 ft1,105 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | −23 ft−7 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
35 mi west to east through Stockton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in California, United States
- Population
- 816,108 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,392.3 sq mi + 34.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 586 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Amador County2,670 ft
- Calaveras County2,410 ft
- Alameda County840 ft
- Stanislaus County520 ft
- Contra Costa County500 ft
- San Joaquin County170 ft
- Sacramento County98 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in California55th highest of 57
- Counties in the United States2,828th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Wallace, San Joaquin County3,117 ft
- Eagle Mountain, San Joaquin County3,030 ft
- Bald Mountain, San Joaquin County2,850 ft
- Cedar Knob2,030 ft
- Black Butte, San Joaquin County1,080 ft
All 28 towns in San Joaquin County by typical elevation
- Escalon120 ft
- Dogtown110 ft
- Farmington110 ft
- Lockeford100 ft
- Peters100 ft
- Linden90 ft
- Mountain House81 ft
- Victor78 ft
- Ripon63 ft
- Collierville57 ft
- Tracy57 ft
- Waterloo56 ft
- Acampo53 ft
- Lodi46 ft
- Woodbridge43 ft
- Morada38 ft
- Manteca34 ft
- Garden Acres30 ft
- August23 ft
- Kennedy22 ft
- French Camp17 ft
- Lathrop16 ft
- Stockton15 ft
- Taft Mosswood14 ft
- Thornton11 ft
- Lincoln Village8 ft
- Country Club4 ft
- Terminous−11 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.