Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m790 ft 240 m660 ft 200 m390 ft 120 m130 ft 40 m0 ft 0 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
Tamalpais-Homestead Valley sits at about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
280 ft 85 m
most residents: 27–390 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Richardson Bay
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
at the foot of the San Miguel Hills
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tamalpais-Homestead Valley spans about 1,050 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 | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the San Miguel Hills | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Richardson Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Tamalpais, 1.4 mi northwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 2,576 ft785 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the middle of Tamalpais-Homestead Valley.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Marin County, California, United States
- Population
- 11,492 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,453 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8844° N, 122.5387° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 94941
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tamalpais-Homestead Valley280 ft
- Muir Beach210 ft
- Tiburon150 ft
- Mill Valley150 ft
- Sausalito120 ft
- Marin City120 ft
- Strawberry80 ft
- Larkspur68 ft
- Belvedere53 ft
- Corte Madera35 ft
- Alto31 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California990th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Marin County7th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Tamalpais2,576 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Scarpet Peak1,930 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 ft
- Big Rock Ridge1,880 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.
- Tamalpais-Homestead 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.