Vista Santa Rosa, CA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
490 ft 150 m340 ft 105 m260 ft 80 m110 ft 30 m−49 ft −15 m−130 ft −40 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Vista Santa Rosa sits about 63 ft (19 m) below sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
−63 ft −19 m
most residents: −98–−56 ft
Lowest
−130 ft −40 m
on the south side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
at the foot of the Santa Rosa Mountains
Average
−74 ft −22 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Vista Santa Rosa spans about 620 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.
About 100% of residents live below sea level.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | −63 ft−19 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Santa Rosa Mountains | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | −130 ft−40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vista Santa Rosa | −73 ft−22 m |
| Airport (TRM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi east of the CDP boundary | −114 ft−35 m |
| Average of all land | −74 ft−22 m |
| Nearest peak Martinez Mountain, 6.6 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 6,570 ft2,000 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Riverside County, California, United States
- Population
- 2,435 2020 Census
- Land area
- 15.5 sq mi
- Density
- 157 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.6278° N, 116.2181° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Salton Sea basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Jacqueline Cochran Regional (TRM) −114 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 92236 92253 92274
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Palm Desert200 ft
- Indian Wells170 ft
- Desert Palms110 ft
- Bermuda Dunes89 ft
- La Quinta67 ft
- Indio10 ft
- Coachella−63 ft
- Vista Santa Rosa−63 ft
- Thermal−120 ft
- Mecca−170 ft
- Oasis−180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,609th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Riverside County71st highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Toro Peak8,690 ft
- Rabbit Peak6,650 ft
- Martinez Mountain6,570 ft
- Asbestos Mountain5,250 ft
- Coyote Mountain3,194 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.
- Vista Santa Rosa 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.