Dillingham, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
200 ft 60 m150 ft 45 m120 ft 40 m74 ft 23 m25 ft 8 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Dillingham sits at about 82 ft (25 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
82 ft 25 m
most residents: 19–100 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Nushagak Bay
Highest
200 ft 60 m
on the northwest side
Average
85 ft 26 m
all land inside city limits
Dillingham spans about 200 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 | 82 ft25 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 200 ft60 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Nushagak Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dillingham | 77 ft24 m |
| Airport (DLG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 82 ft25 m |
| Average of all land | 85 ft26 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dillingham Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 2,145 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.2 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 65 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 59.0397° N, 158.4575° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Bering Sea
- Airport
- Dillingham (DLG) 82 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99576
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Stuyahok340 ft
- Koliganek190 ft
- Aleknagik120 ft
- Portage Creek110 ft
- Ekwok110 ft
- South Naknek93 ft
- Dillingham82 ft
- Naknek80 ft
- Levelock60 ft
- Clark's Point39 ft
- Manokotak36 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska255th highest of 355
- Towns in Dillingham Census Area7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mable Mountain2,410 ft
- Jackknife Mountain2,370 ft
- Gnarled Mountain1,960 ft
- Acorn Peak1,858 ft
- Marsh Mountain1,630 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.
- 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, −7 ft at 59.0421° N, 158.4482° 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.
- 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.