Bear Creek, AK Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Bear Creek, Alaska, shaded from sea level level on Resurrection Bay to 4,360 ft on Tiehacker Mountain
Elevation
4,360 ft 1,330 m3,270 ft 995 m2,730 ft 830 m1,640 ft 500 m550 ft 165 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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.
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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

Bear Creek sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 61–1,370 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Resurrection Bay
Highest
4,360 ft 1,330 m
on Tiehacker Mountain
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside the CDP boundary

Bear Creek spans about 4,360 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
160 ft50 m
Highest point
Inside the CDP boundary, on Tiehacker Mountain
4,360 ft1,330 m
Lowest point
Where the land meets Resurrection Bay
0 ft0 m
Town center
USGS map point for Bear Creek
150 ft45 m
Airport (SWD)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi south of the CDP boundary
28 ft9 m
Average of all land990 ft300 m
Nearest peak
Mount Ascension, 2.6 mi northwest of the CDP boundary
5,640 ft1,720 m

Elevation profile, south to north

9.6 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Bear Creek, Alaska, shaded from sea level level on Resurrection Bay to 4,360 ft on Tiehacker Mountain
CDP boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 500 ft (152 m).
Location
Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
Population
2,129 2020 Census
Land area
38.4 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
Density
55 per sq mi
Coordinates
60.1642° N, 149.3950° W
Time zone
Alaska UTC−9 / −8
Drains to
Gulf of Alaska
Airport
Seward (SWD) 28 ft
ZIP codes 1
99664
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Sunrise2,020 ft
  2. Moose Pass750 ft
  3. Cooper Landing600 ft
  4. Primrose490 ft
  5. Chenega460 ft
  6. Crown Point460 ft
  7. Funny River190 ft
  8. Bear Creek160 ft
  9. Seward86 ft
  10. Whittier40 ft
  11. Lowell Point39 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Andy Simons Mountain6,190 ft
  • Sheep Mountain, Kenai Peninsula Borough6,180 ft
  • Mount Ascension5,640 ft
  • Mount Adair5,187 ft
  • Phoenix Peak5,130 ft
How we measure
  • Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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, 0 ft at 60.1335° N, 149.3918° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
  • 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.
  • Bear Creek 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.