Select Cities by Elevation Gap between Lowest and Highest Points

[New Brisavoine]

In Nice, on the French Riviera, the highest inhabited house is apparently this one, at 1,590 feet above sea-level.



It is part of an exclusive gated neighborhood not accessible to strangers:



The entrance of the neighborhood:

[mousquet]

Originally Posted by New Brisavoine

In Nice, on the French Riviera, the highest inhabited house is apparently this one, at 1,590 feet above sea-level.

That little thing must be worth €3 or 4 mi or something.
Typically the kind of properties that the show business fancies, including well established Hollywood stars.
Brad Pitt and George Clooney have their estates there. Theirs are €30 or 40 mi, or more, so I read.
Properties are so valuable over there that you may speculate, you can't lose your money.

It's funny how they fantasize on the Riviera. I like the Basque Atlantic coast better. It is more affordable, younger and sportier, all at the same time.

[New Brisavoine]

And the highest inhabited house in Toulon, 1,100 feet above sea level:





1,100 feet above Europe's busiest military harbor:

[chowhou]

Originally Posted by dimondpark

as an aside, years ago, I was looking at the highest inhabited elevation, not just elevation in general because lots of times, they are parks or cant be bult on.

So after a bit of geekery, I came up with this:

Feet above Lowest Elevation...Address, City, State 1,000 ft+
2,976 ft--43201 North Old Mine Road, Cave Creek, AZ
2,529 ft--19090 Bolhman Road, Saratoga, CA
2,118 ft--2034 Tall Woods Court, Draper, UT
1,637 ft--21341 Stonetower Lane, Trabuco Canyon, CA
1,594 ft--16678 Via La Costa, Los Angeles, CA
1,550 ft--6866 Wilton Drive, Oakland, CA
1,501 ft--4552 South Zarahemla Drive, Salt Lake City, UT
1,497 ft--2167 Rimcrest Drive, Glendale, CA
1,428 ft--111 West 57th Street, New York, NY
1,355 ft--2500 Aha Aina Place, Honolulu, HI
1,305 ft--1396 Summit Road, Berkeley, CA
1,289 ft--19356 Overlook Road, Monte Sereno, CA
1,286 ft--432 Park Avenue, New York, NY
1,269 ft--1154 Millstream Road, West Vancouver, BC
1,131 ft--16940 Sheldon Road, Los Gatos, CA

It's not complete, but this is what I digged up at that time...

I'm a little bit late but as a Vancouverite I can tell you that the properties on Hollyburn Ridge in West Vancouver are in the 2600ft territory above West Vancouver's lowest point (sea level).

Most of them are little more than shacks less than 500sqft but there's a fairly nice new house located here at approximately 2588ft AMSL.

4350 St Marys Ave in the District of North Vancouver is also approximately 1263ft AMSL.

And for outside North America, the highest address I think in Hong Kong are the Overthorpe properties on the Peak at around 1640ft AMSL.

Also, nitpicking, it seems like 19090 Bolhman Road is not in Saratoaga and is actually in Santa Clara county. Not sure what you do with county addresses.

[SpawnOfVulcan]

Originally Posted by pj3000

As always, city limits is poopy.

Pittsburgh elevation delta is limited by the city proper 58 sq miles. The delta is likely not too much different for Allegheny County though, but probably a 700-750 ft elevation difference.

I think it's more interesting within city limits. Doing it by metro would make for some whacky measurements. Birmingham would probably be over 1000', but that's not really indicative of the elevation change in developed land.

[mhays]

By metro you'd get some of the continent's tallest mountains. The highest residents might be people living in fire-watch cabins (do those still have people?) or other cabins in roadless areas.

[Atlas]

Yeah, if you include the SLC metro then you might include Lone Peak (11253 ft, 3430 m) within the boundary, although it's technically in a national forest.

The total "elevation gap" for SLC would then be 7043 ft (2147 m).

[craigs]

If we're going by metros, then Los Angeles has Mount San Gorgonio, elevation 11,503 ft.

[mhays]

I forgot that this was total elevation rather than the highest residence. Seattle's metro goes to 14,410' with Mt. Rainier.

[New Brisavoine]

If we go by metro area and by total elevation, then few metro areas in Europe can beat Nice. Nice is one of only two places in Europe where you can ski and swim in the same day.

The Nice metro area extends from sea level:



to 3,143 meters (10,312 ft) above sea-level:

[MolsonExport]

In the Metro Vancouver region, the highest elevation reaches about 1,985 to 1,990 meters (6,512 to 6,530 feet) at Meslilloet Mountain in the regional district's northern mountains, while the lowest spots drop slightly below sea level to around -4 meters (-13 feet).

[chowhou]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

In the Metro Vancouver region, the highest elevation reaches about 1,985 to 1,990 meters (6,512 to 6,530 feet) at Meslilloet Mountain in the regional district's northern mountains, while the lowest spots drop slightly below sea level to around -4 meters (-13 feet).

I'm really sorry to inform you but the peak of Meslilloet Mountain is about 200m outside the Metro Vancouver Regional District and is in the SLRD. The highest point is I think still on Meslilloet but at around 1850m on the south slope.

[Yuri]

São Paulo

Highest - 1,135 m (Jaraguá Peak; northwest border)
Lowest ---- 720 m (Tietê and Pinheiros rivers confluence; west border)

Highest point on urban area is the Paulista Avenue, at 848m. It goes along a ridge, splitting Tietê and Pinheiros basins.


Londrina

Highest --- 844 m (rural areas on southern part of the municipality)
Lowest ---- 410 m (rural areas east, on Tibagi river)

Urban area ranges from 540m (Igapó lakes) to 610m (Cathedral). The British planners chose the highest point to allocate it to the cathedral. It's the same for all the cities they founded on Northern Paraná state.