Cold Bay, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 255 m630 ft 190 m520 ft 160 m310 ft 95 m100 ft 30 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cold Bay sits at about 77 ft (23 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
77 ft 23 m
most residents: 0–90 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Cold Bay
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
72 ft 22 m
all land inside city limits
Cold Bay spans about 830 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 | 77 ft23 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Cold Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cold Bay | 140 ft40 m |
| Airport (CDB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 100 ft30 m |
| Average of all land | 72 ft22 m |
| Nearest peak Frosty Peak, 7.2 mi southwest of the city limits | 5,650 ft1,720 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 60 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.5 sq mi + 15.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 55.1858° N, 162.7211° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Bering Sea
- Airport
- Cold Bay (CDB) 100 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99571
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- False Pass930 ft
- Ivanof Bay820 ft
- Chignik Lagoon760 ft
- Unalaska610 ft
- Akutan430 ft
- Chignik Lake220 ft
- Sand Point140 ft
- Cold Bay77 ft
- Nelson Lagoon57 ft
- Perryville19 ft
- King Cove15 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska261st highest of 355
- Towns in Aleutians East Borough4th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frosty Peak5,650 ft
- Mount Dutton4,930 ft
- Aghileen Pinnacles4,430 ft
- Mount Emmons4,290 ft
- North Walrus Peak2,900 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. All public domain.