Elevation of Colton, California, United States of America

Colton, California, United States of America is 302 m (991 ft) above sea level.

Colton's height from sea level is 302 metres, or 991 feet. GeoNames reads 309 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 306 m.

Ground within 5 km

267 m – 520 m

Mean 325 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 253 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 212

among the towns of California, and 186th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

4.4 km to the NE, at 327 m, 25 m higher.

Cross-section through Colton

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Colton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

666255WE26.3 km
West to east: from 344 m at 13 km west to 411 m at 13 km east.
666255NS26.3 km
North to south: from 637 m at 13 km north to 477 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Colton, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Colton

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Bernardino 4.4 kmNE 327 m (1,073 ft) +25 m
Rialto 6.3 kmNW 381 m (1,250 ft) +79 m
Fontana 11.4 kmW 383 m (1,257 ft) +81 m
Highland 11.4 kmNE 393 m (1,289 ft) +91 m
Redlands 12.2 kmE 425 m (1,394 ft) +123 m

Peaks and passes near Colton

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Colton is

Latitude 34.0739016, longitude -117.3136547. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Colton elevation: 302 m (991 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Colton's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 309 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.