Stockton, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
70 ft 21 m50 ft 15 m40 ft 12 m21 ft 6 m1 ft 0 m−9 ft −3 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Stockton sits at about 15 ft (5 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
15 ft 5 m
most residents: 5–25 ft
Lowest
−9 ft −3 m
on the west side
Highest
69 ft 21 m
on the east side
Average
15 ft 5 m
all land inside city limits
Stockton spans about 78 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 | 15 ft5 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 69 ft21 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | −9 ft−3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Stockton | 13 ft4 m |
| Airport (SCK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 33 ft10 m |
| Average of all land | 15 ft5 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in San Joaquin County, California, United States
- Population
- 324,975 2024 est.
- Land area
- 63.3 sq mi + 3.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,134 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9577° N, 121.2908° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- San Joaquin River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Stockton Metro (SCK) 33 ft
- ZIP codes 12
- 95202 95203 95204 95205 95206 95207 95209 95210 95211 95212 95215 95219
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waterloo56 ft
- Morada38 ft
- Garden Acres30 ft
- August23 ft
- Kennedy22 ft
- French Camp17 ft
- Lathrop16 ft
- Stockton15 ft
- Taft Mosswood14 ft
- Lincoln Village8 ft
- Country Club4 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,580th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Joaquin County23rd highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Eylar Mountain4,087 ft
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Discovery Peak3,830 ft
- Bear Mountain, Calaveras County2,890 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 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).
- 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, −10 ft at 38.0507° N, 121.4043° 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.
- 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.