Alcan Border, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,680 ft 1,125 m3,220 ft 980 m2,990 ft 910 m2,520 ft 770 m2,050 ft 625 m1,820 ft 555 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Alcan Border sits at about 2,060 ft (630 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,060 ft 630 m
few residents
Lowest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,680 ft 1,125 m
on the north side
Average
2,200 ft 670 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Alcan Border spans about 1,860 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 3,680 ft1,125 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Average of all land | 2,200 ft670 m |
| Nearest peak Wellesley Mountain, 9.2 mi southwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 4,970 ft1,515 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through the middle of Alcan Border.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 36 2020 Census
- Land area
- 151.7 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 62.6360° N, 141.0221° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Chisana River → Tanana River → Yukon River → Bering Sea
- ZIP codes 1
- 99764
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska24th highest of 355
- Towns in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area2nd highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Allen9,550 ft
- Funshoot Mountain6,140 ft
- Carden Hills5,550 ft
- Wellesley Mountain4,970 ft
- Airs Hill3,396 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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, 1,820 ft at 62.6540° N, 141.1754° 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.
- Alcan Border is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.