Silverado, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,300 ft 1,005 m2,710 ft 825 m2,410 ft 735 m1,820 ft 555 m1,230 ft 375 m940 ft 285 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
Silverado sits at about 1,650 ft (505 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,650 ft 505 m
most residents: 1,350–2,440 ft
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,300 ft 1,005 m
at the foot of the Santa Ana Mountains
Average
1,700 ft 515 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Silverado spans about 2,360 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 | 1,650 ft505 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Santa Ana Mountains | 3,300 ft1,005 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 940 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Silverado | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Airport (SNA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi west of the CDP boundary | 56 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 1,700 ft515 m |
| Nearest peak Santiago Peak, 3.2 mi southeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 5,690 ft1,734 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Orange County, California, United States
- Population
- 932 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.7 sq mi
- Density
- 163 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7461° N, 117.6370° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- John Wayne/Orange County (SNA) 56 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 92676
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Silverado1,650 ft
- Modjeska1,350 ft
- Williams Canyon1,330 ft
- Trabuco Canyon1,280 ft
- Temescal Valley1,230 ft
- Rancho Santa Margarita1,060 ft
- El Cerrito, Riverside County930 ft
- Coronita690 ft
- Lake Forest570 ft
- Orange Park Acres490 ft
- North Tustin210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California415th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Orange Countyhighest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cucamonga Peak8,850 ft
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 ft
- Mount Jurupa2,225 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.
- Silverado 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.