Valley Ford, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m320 ft 100 m270 ft 85 m170 ft 50 m59 ft 18 m6 ft 2 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
Valley Ford sits at about 94 ft (29 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
94 ft 29 m
few residents
Lowest
5 ft 2 m
on the southwest side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the northeast side
Average
140 ft 40 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Valley Ford spans about 425 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 94 ft29 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 5 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Valley Ford | 53 ft16 m |
| Airport (STS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 129 ft39 m |
| Average of all land | 140 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sonoma County, California, United States
- Population
- 148 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 56 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3180° N, 122.9242° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Charles M Schulz/Sonoma County (STS) 129 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 94952 94972
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Occidental630 ft
- Dillon Beach360 ft
- Bodega360 ft
- Bloomfield180 ft
- Bodega Bay180 ft
- Sebastopol170 ft
- Graton160 ft
- Petaluma Center110 ft
- Tomales110 ft
- Valley Ford94 ft
- Salmon Creek66 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,349th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sonoma County34th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Saint Helena4,342 ft
- Bald Mountain, Sonoma County2,730 ft
- Mount Veeder2,680 ft
- Mohrhardt Ridge2,320 ft
- Big Rock Ridge1,880 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Valley Ford 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.