What is the geography of Sebastopol, California?
Sebastopol is located at (38.399163, -122.827034). Its elevation is 65 to 250 feet above sea level. Its downtown is at the intersection of state highways 12 and 116 (aka Gravenstein Highway), approximately nine miles west of U.S. Highway 101. Sebastopol is situated on the edge of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, which is fed by Santa Rosa Creek and other tributaries. The Laguna is a wetland area that is home to many species of wildlife and vegetation, and divides the town from the neighboring Santa Rosa. Nearly every winter the Laguna floods, cutting off California State Route 12State route 12, and often flooding the low lying businesses and homes on the eastern side of Sebastopol. The town currently sits atop several sites of Pomo peoplePomo Indian villages, and arrowheads are found in gopher holes with some frequency in the less disturbed areas of town bordering the flood plain. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.9 km sq (1.9 square miles), all land
