Shandon, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,110 ft 340 m1,080 ft 330 m1,060 ft 325 m1,030 ft 310 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 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
Shandon sits at about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,040 ft 315 m
most residents: 1,020–1,080 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the west side
Highest
1,110 ft 340 m
at the foot of the Eagle Hills
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shandon spans about 140 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 | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Eagle Hills | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shandon | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,168 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 396 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6552° N, 120.3754° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Estrella River → Salinas River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 93461
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Creston1,120 ft
- Shandon1,040 ft
- Santa Margarita1,010 ft
- Garden Farms960 ft
- Atascadero940 ft
- Whitley Gardens920 ft
- Templeton830 ft
- El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)800 ft
- Avenal800 ft
- San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County620 ft
- Bradley540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California549th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Luis Obispo County2nd highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Mountain, Fresno County4,310 ft
- Machesna Mountain4,060 ft
- Pine Mountain, San Luis Obispo County3,580 ft
- Hi Mountain3,190 ft
- Pine Ridge, San Luis Obispo County3,190 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.
- Shandon 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.