Adak, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,730 ft 525 m1,300 ft 395 m1,080 ft 330 m650 ft 200 m220 ft 65 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Adak sits at about 22 ft (7 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
22 ft 7 m
most residents: 15–39 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Bering Sea
Highest
1,730 ft 525 m
on the southeast side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside city limits
Adak spans about 1,730 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 | 22 ft7 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,730 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Bering Sea | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Adak | 50 ft15 m |
| Airport (ADK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 20 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Moffett, 3.3 mi northwest of the city limits | 3,880 ft1,185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 169 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.6 sq mi + 42.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 51.8800° N, 176.6581° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10 / −9
- Drains to
- Bering Sea
- Airport
- Adak (ADK) 20 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99546
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- False Pass930 ft
- Attu Station790 ft
- Unalaska610 ft
- Akutan430 ft
- Nikolski290 ft
- Atka160 ft
- St. George110 ft
- Eareckson Station100 ft
- Cold Bay77 ft
- St. Paul62 ft
- Adak22 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska321st highest of 355
- Towns in Aleutians West Census Arealowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Great Sitkin Volcano5,710 ft
- Kanaga Volcano4,230 ft
- Mount Moffett3,880 ft
- Mount Adagdak2,090 ft
- Aatudax1,750 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). Much of Alaska's 3DEP comes from airborne radar (IfSAR), good to a few meters.
- 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 and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.