Stanford, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
240 ft 75 m190 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m120 ft 35 m68 ft 21 m43 ft 13 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
Stanford sits at about 81 ft (25 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
81 ft 25 m
most residents: 55–130 ft
Lowest
43 ft 13 m
on the east side
Highest
240 ft 75 m
on the south side
Average
110 ft 30 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Stanford spans about 197 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 | 81 ft25 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 240 ft75 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 43 ft13 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Stanford | 95 ft29 m |
| Airport (SJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi east of the CDP boundary | 62 ft19 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft30 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 Clara County, California, United States
- Population
- 21,150 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Density
- 7,691 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4241° N, 122.1661° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mineta San Jose International (SJC) 62 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94305
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Portola Valley630 ft
- Los Altos Hills440 ft
- Ladera350 ft
- Los Altos180 ft
- West Menlo Park130 ft
- Stanford81 ft
- Atherton61 ft
- Menlo Park60 ft
- Palo Alto32 ft
- North Fair Oaks28 ft
- East Palo Alto16 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,388th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Clara County20th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Scarpet Peak1,930 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 34 ft at 37.4346° N, 122.1612° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Stanford 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.