Akiak, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
46 ft 14 m37 ft 11 m33 ft 10 m25 ft 8 m17 ft 5 m13 ft 4 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
Akiak sits at about 27 ft (8 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
27 ft 8 m
most residents: 27–30 ft
Lowest
13 ft 4 m
on the northeast side
Highest
43 ft 13 m
on the northeast side
Average
25 ft 8 m
all land inside city limits
Akiak spans about 30 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 | 27 ft8 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 43 ft13 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 13 ft4 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Akiak | 16 ft5 m |
| Airport (Z13) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi west of the city limits | 23 ft7 m |
| Average of all land | 25 ft8 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 447 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 208 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 60.9122° N, 161.2139° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Kuskokwim River → Bering Sea
- Airport
- Akiachak (Z13) 23 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99552
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tuluksak40 ft
- Bethel38 ft
- Kasigluk32 ft
- Akiak27 ft
- Akiachak20 ft
- Kwethluk18 ft
- Oscarville14 ft
- Napaskiak14 ft
- Napakiak13 ft
- Atmautluak9 ft
- Nunapitchuk9 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska317th highest of 355
- Towns in Bethel Census Area20th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Marvel Dome3,773 ft
- Mount Hamilton3,650 ft
- Greenstone Ridge3,150 ft
- Fisher Dome2,979 ft
- Spein Mountain2,370 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 12 ft at 60.9182° N, 161.2004° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.