Soquel, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m530 ft 160 m440 ft 135 m270 ft 85 m100 ft 30 m17 ft 5 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
Soquel sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 66–330 ft
Lowest
17 ft 5 m
on the southwest side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the northeast side
Average
230 ft 70 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Soquel spans about 683 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 17 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Soquel | 36 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 230 ft70 m |
| Nearest peak Loma Prieta, 8.1 mi northeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 3,792 ft1,156 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Santa Cruz County, California, United States
- Population
- 9,980 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,171 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9880° N, 121.9566° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 95003 95073
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pasatiempo400 ft
- Aptos230 ft
- Soquel160 ft
- Rio del Mar150 ft
- Seacliff140 ft
- Capitola89 ft
- Live Oak84 ft
- Santa Cruz70 ft
- Paradise Park64 ft
- Twin Lakes52 ft
- Pleasure Point45 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,194th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Cruz County16th 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 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.
- Soquel 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.