Signal Hill, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
360 ft 110 m280 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m150 ft 45 m66 ft 20 m23 ft 7 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
Signal Hill sits at about 100 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
100 ft 30 m
most residents: 40–220 ft
Lowest
23 ft 7 m
on the south side
Highest
361 ft 110 m
on Signal Hill
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside city limits
Signal Hill spans about 337 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 | 100 ft30 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Signal Hill | 361 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 23 ft7 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Signal Hill | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.7 mi northeast of the city limits | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 11,279 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 5,153 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8045° N, 118.1678° 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
- 90755
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Signal Hill100 ft
- Paramount74 ft
- Bellflower72 ft
- East Rancho Dominguez69 ft
- Artesia55 ft
- Lakewood51 ft
- Long Beach39 ft
- Hawaiian Gardens32 ft
- Los Alamitos25 ft
- Rossmoor16 ft
- Seal Beach12 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,332nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County116th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- Mount Orizaba2,100 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.