San Lucas, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m410 ft 125 m370 ft 110 m350 ft 105 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
San Lucas sits at about 420 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 125 m
most residents: 400–460 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the south side
Highest
500 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Average
400 ft 120 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
San Lucas spans about 150 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 | 420 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Lucas | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (KIC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 374 ft114 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Monterey County, California, United States
- Population
- 324 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 822 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1289° N, 121.0205° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Salinas River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mesa del Rey (KIC) 374 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93954
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Hunter Liggett1,090 ft
- Oak Shores1,010 ft
- Lake Nacimiento990 ft
- Lockwood, Monterey County980 ft
- Bradley540 ft
- San Ardo440 ft
- San Lucas420 ft
- Pine Canyon410 ft
- King City320 ft
- Greenfield290 ft
- Soledad210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California798th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Monterey County7th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Junipero Serra Peak5,857 ft
- Pinyon Peak5,250 ft
- Laguna Mountain4,510 ft
- Center Peak4,500 ft
- Williams Hill2,810 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).
- 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, 350 ft at 36.1271° N, 121.0260° 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.
- San Lucas 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.