Twentynine Palms, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,560 ft 1,085 m3,100 ft 945 m2,870 ft 875 m2,410 ft 735 m1,950 ft 595 m1,720 ft 525 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Twentynine Palms sits at about 1,930 ft (590 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,930 ft 590 m
most residents: 1,800–2,190 ft
Lowest
1,720 ft 525 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,560 ft 1,085 m
at the foot of the Pinto Mountains
Average
2,160 ft 655 m
all land inside city limits
Twentynine Palms spans about 1,840 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 | 1,930 ft590 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Pinto Mountains | 3,560 ft1,085 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Twentynine Palms | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Airport (TNP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.8 mi east of the city limits | 1,888 ft575 m |
| Average of all land | 2,160 ft655 m |
| Nearest peak Twentynine Palms Mountain, 2.3 mi southeast of the city limits (NGS survey) | 4,565 ft1,391 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in San Bernardino County, California, United States
- Population
- 26,563 2024 est.
- Land area
- 58.8 sq mi
- Density
- 452 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1356° N, 116.0542° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Dale Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Twentynine Palms (TNP) 1,888 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 92277 92278
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Yucca Valley3,400 ft
- Homestead Valley3,280 ft
- Joshua Tree2,850 ft
- Twentynine Palms1,930 ft
- Sky Valley1,160 ft
- Desert Hot Springs1,100 ft
- Indio Hills1,100 ft
- Desert Edge1,000 ft
- Garnet850 ft
- Thousand Palms240 ft
- Desert Palms110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California385th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Bernardino County29th highest of 52
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quail Mountain5,820 ft
- Queen Mountain5,680 ft
- Twentynine Palms Mountain4,565 ft
- Hidalgo Mountain4,436 ft
- Pinto Mountain3,985 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).
- 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.