Bristol Bay Borough, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m800 ft 245 m670 ft 205 m400 ft 120 m130 ft 40 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bristol Bay Borough averages about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Kvichak Bay to 1,070 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
150 ft 45 m
all land inside the borough
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the east side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Kvichak Bay
Bristol Bay Borough spans about 1,070 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside the borough, on the east side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Kvichak Bay | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
50 mi west to east through Naknek.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Alaska, United States
- Population
- 884 2024 est.
- Land area
- 481.4 sq mi + 367.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Chinitna Bay
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring boroughs and census areas sharing a border, by average
- Lake and Peninsula Borough1,020 ft
- Dillingham Census Area710 ft
- Bristol Bay Borough150 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Boroughs and census areas in Alaskalowest of 26
- Counties in the United States2,852nd highest of 3,151
All 3 towns in Bristol Bay Borough by typical elevation
- South Naknek93 ft
- Naknek80 ft
- King Salmon70 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census borough boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, −4 ft at 58.8101° N, 157.0112° 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: neighboring boroughs and census areas and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the borough with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the borough.
- 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 (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Alaska: much of Alaska's 3DEP comes from airborne radar (IfSAR), good to a few meters.
- 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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.