Spring Valley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m710 ft 215 m630 ft 190 m460 ft 140 m300 ft 95 m220 ft 70 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
Spring Valley sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 340–660 ft
Lowest
220 ft 70 m
on the southeast side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
at the foot of the Jamul Mountains
Average
500 ft 155 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Spring Valley spans about 650 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Jamul Mountains | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 220 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Spring Valley | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (SAN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10.0 mi west of the CDP boundary | 17 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft155 m |
| Nearest peak San Miguel Mountain, 1.4 mi southeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 2,569 ft783 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 30,998 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.3 sq mi
- Density
- 4,221 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.7448° N, 116.9989° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Diego International (SAN) 17 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 91977 91978
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Granite Hills650 ft
- Casa de Oro-Mount Helix640 ft
- Rancho San Diego560 ft
- La Mesa550 ft
- Spring Valley490 ft
- El Cajon480 ft
- Bostonia470 ft
- Lemon Grove430 ft
- Santee390 ft
- La Presa340 ft
- Bonita200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California743rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego County33rd highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Viejas Mountain4,189 ft
- Lyons Peak3,741 ft
- El Cajon Mountain3,677 ft
- Otay Mountain3,560 ft
- San Miguel Mountain2,569 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.
- Spring 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.