Cantwell, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,030 ft 1,835 m5,020 ft 1,530 m4,510 ft 1,375 m3,510 ft 1,070 m2,500 ft 760 m2,000 ft 610 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
Cantwell sits at about 2,220 ft (680 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,220 ft 680 m
most residents: 2,080–2,520 ft
Lowest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the northeast side
Highest
6,030 ft 1,835 m
on the east side
Average
2,770 ft 845 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cantwell spans about 4,030 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 | 2,220 ft680 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 6,030 ft1,835 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cantwell | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Average of all land | 2,770 ft845 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Denali Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 200 2020 Census
- Land area
- 119.0 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 63.3917° N, 148.9508° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Nenana River → Tanana River → Yukon River → Bering Sea
- ZIP codes 1
- 99729
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cantwell2,220 ft
- Ferry2,220 ft
- Denali Park2,120 ft
- Healy1,460 ft
- Petersville1,400 ft
- Chase1,060 ft
- Anderson510 ft
- Trapper Creek410 ft
- Talkeetna390 ft
- Nenana360 ft
- Four Mile Road350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska14th highest of 355
- Towns in Denali Boroughhighest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Pendleton7,850 ft
- Fang Mountain6,590 ft
- Sable Mountain5,990 ft
- Pyramid Mountain5,510 ft
- Pyramid Peak, Denali Borough5,190 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, 1,980 ft at 63.4543° N, 148.8132° 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.
- Cantwell 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. All public domain.