Santa Fe Springs, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
190 ft 55 m160 ft 45 m140 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m75 ft 23 m59 ft 18 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Santa Fe Springs sits at about 140 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
140 ft 40 m
most residents: 120–150 ft
Lowest
59 ft 18 m
on the southeast side
Highest
190 ft 55 m
on the north side
Average
130 ft 40 m
all land inside city limits
Santa Fe Springs spans about 131 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 | 140 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 190 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 59 ft18 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Santa Fe Springs | 140 ft40 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi southwest of the city limits | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 18,683 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,109 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9472° N, 118.0853° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Long Beach (Daugherty Field) (LGB) 60 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 90670
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Whittier270 ft
- Montebello210 ft
- Pico Rivera170 ft
- South Whittier160 ft
- West Whittier-Los Nietos160 ft
- La Mirada150 ft
- Santa Fe Springs140 ft
- Bell Gardens130 ft
- Downey110 ft
- Norwalk91 ft
- Bellflower72 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,242nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County106th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waterman Mountain8,030 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 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).
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.