Buckland, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
62 ft 19 m47 ft 14 m40 ft 12 m26 ft 8 m11 ft 3 m4 ft 1 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
Buckland sits at about 23 ft (7 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
23 ft 7 m
most residents: 20–25 ft
Lowest
4 ft 1 m
on the west side
Highest
62 ft 19 m
on the east side
Average
20 ft 6 m
all land inside city limits
Buckland spans about 58 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 | 23 ft7 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 62 ft19 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 4 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buckland | 5 ft2 m |
| Airport (BVK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 29 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 20 ft6 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 499 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 698 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 65.9797° N, 161.1231° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Norton Sound
- Airport
- Buckland (BVK) 29 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99727
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White Mountain140 ft
- Kiana120 ft
- Elim60 ft
- Koyuk47 ft
- Noorvik44 ft
- Deering38 ft
- Golovin33 ft
- Buckland23 ft
- Selawik15 ft
- Shaktoolik14 ft
- Kotzebue8 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska318th highest of 355
- Towns in Northwest Arctic Borough9th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Granite Mountain, Nome Census Area2,850 ft
- Monument Mountain2,400 ft
- Kiwalik Mountain2,370 ft
- Hotham Peak1,647 ft
- Clem Mountain1,568 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.