Scotts Valley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m920 ft 280 m830 ft 250 m640 ft 195 m440 ft 135 m350 ft 105 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
Scotts Valley sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 520–770 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the west side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
at the foot of the Sierra Azul
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside city limits
Scotts Valley spans about 770 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Sierra Azul | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scotts Valley | 560 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
| Nearest peak Loma Prieta, 8.1 mi northeast of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,792 ft1,156 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Cruz County, California, United States
- Population
- 11,828 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,561 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.0511° N, 122.0147° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95066
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lompico890 ft
- Zayante830 ft
- Scotts Valley640 ft
- Ben Lomond500 ft
- Mount Hermon500 ft
- Pasatiempo400 ft
- Felton400 ft
- Soquel160 ft
- Live Oak84 ft
- Santa Cruz70 ft
- Paradise Park64 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California654th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Cruz County4th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.