Vandenberg AFB, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m810 ft 250 m690 ft 210 m430 ft 130 m180 ft 55 m53 ft 16 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
Vandenberg AFB sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 440–500 ft
Lowest
53 ft 16 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the east side
Average
450 ft 140 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Vandenberg AFB spans about 1,007 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 53 ft16 m |
| Airport (SMX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 261 ft80 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.4 mi west to east through the middle of Vandenberg AFB.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,559 2020 Census
- Land area
- 22.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 159 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.7540° N, 120.5347° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field (SMX) 261 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93437
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Los Alamos590 ft
- Vandenberg AFB470 ft
- Sisquoc440 ft
- Orcutt390 ft
- Garey380 ft
- Vandenberg Village360 ft
- Mission Hills320 ft
- Casmalia270 ft
- Santa Maria220 ft
- Lompoc97 ft
- Guadalupe84 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California752nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Barbara County9th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ranger Peak4,580 ft
- Santa Ynez Peak4,290 ft
- Tepusquet Peak3,240 ft
- Oak Mountain2,060 ft
- Mount Lospe1,650 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.
- Vandenberg AFB 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. All public domain.