Visalia, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
360 ft 110 m330 ft 100 m320 ft 100 m290 ft 90 m270 ft 80 m250 ft 75 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
Visalia sits at about 320 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
320 ft 100 m
most residents: 310–340 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the west side
Highest
360 ft 110 m
on the east side
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside city limits
Visalia spans about 110 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 | 320 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 360 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Visalia | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (VIS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 293 ft89 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
| Nearest peak Colvin Mountain, 8.8 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,610 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Tulare County, California, United States
- Population
- 146,271 2024 est.
- Land area
- 40.6 sq mi
- Density
- 3,601 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.3302° N, 119.2921° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Visalia Municipal (VIS) 293 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 93277 93291 93292
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Exeter380 ft
- Ivanhoe360 ft
- Farmersville360 ft
- Linnell Camp350 ft
- Hypericum330 ft
- Patterson Tract330 ft
- Visalia320 ft
- East Tulare Villa290 ft
- Goshen280 ft
- Tulare280 ft
- West Goshen260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California935th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Tulare County55th highest of 70
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bear Mountain, Fresno County3,400 ft
- Jesse Morrow Mountain2,100 ft
- Rocky Hill1,780 ft
- Campbell Mountain1,756 ft
- Colvin Mountain1,610 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, 240 ft at 36.2985° N, 119.4729° 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.