San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 240 m730 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m650 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m580 ft 175 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
San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 610–660 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the north side
Highest
780 ft 240 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
630 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County spans about 200 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 780 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (PRB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 839 ft256 m |
| Average of all land | 630 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,172 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,888 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7525° N, 120.6963° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Salinas River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Paso Robles Municipal (PRB) 839 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93451
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Creston1,120 ft
- Shandon1,040 ft
- Oak Shores1,010 ft
- Lake Nacimiento990 ft
- Atascadero940 ft
- Whitley Gardens920 ft
- Templeton830 ft
- El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)800 ft
- San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County620 ft
- Bradley540 ft
- San Ardo440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California669th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Luis Obispo County11th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Center Peak4,500 ft
- Black Mountain, Fresno County4,310 ft
- Pine Mountain, San Luis Obispo County3,580 ft
- Williams Hill2,810 ft
- Pine Top Mountain2,640 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.
- San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County 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.