Searles Valley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,690 ft 1,125 m3,180 ft 970 m2,920 ft 890 m2,410 ft 735 m1,890 ft 575 m1,630 ft 500 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
Searles Valley sits at about 1,680 ft (510 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,680 ft 510 m
most residents: 1,660–1,980 ft
Lowest
1,630 ft 500 m
on the south side
Highest
3,690 ft 1,125 m
at the foot of the Argus Range
Average
2,180 ft 665 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Searles Valley spans about 2,060 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 | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Argus Range | 3,690 ft1,125 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,630 ft500 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Searles Valley | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Airport (L72) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,718 ft524 m |
| Average of all land | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Nearest peak Argus Peak, 4.2 mi north of the CDP boundary | 6,540 ft1,995 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Bernardino County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,565 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.5 sq mi
- Density
- 149 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7675° N, 117.4039° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Borax Flat basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Trona (L72) 1,718 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93562
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Randsburg3,590 ft
- Johannesburg3,560 ft
- Homewood Canyon3,330 ft
- Pearsonville2,550 ft
- Inyokern2,450 ft
- China Lake Acres2,420 ft
- Ridgecrest Heights2,420 ft
- Ridgecrest2,300 ft
- Valley Wells2,190 ft
- Trona1,730 ft
- Searles Valley1,680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California409th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Bernardino County32nd highest of 52
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Manly Peak7,150 ft
- Argus Peak6,540 ft
- Needle Peak5,780 ft
- Straw Peak5,570 ft
- Brown Mountain5,120 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.
- Searles Valley 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.