Yorba Linda, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,680 ft 510 m1,320 ft 405 m1,140 ft 350 m790 ft 240 m430 ft 130 m250 ft 75 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Yorba Linda sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 340–700 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,680 ft 510 m
on the east side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside city limits
Yorba Linda spans about 1,430 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Yorba Linda | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (SNA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi south of the city limits | 56 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Orange County, California, United States
- Population
- 66,489 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.0 sq mi
- Density
- 3,332 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8886° N, 117.8131° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- John Wayne/Orange County (SNA) 56 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 92886 92887
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chino Hills770 ft
- Rowland Heights530 ft
- Orange Park Acres490 ft
- Yorba Linda480 ft
- Brea400 ft
- Villa Park350 ft
- El Modena310 ft
- Placentia280 ft
- Orange240 ft
- Fullerton210 ft
- Anaheim150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California747th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Orange County12th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 ft
- Mount Jurupa2,225 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.