Elfin Cove, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,360 ft 1,025 m2,520 ft 770 m2,100 ft 640 m1,260 ft 385 m420 ft 130 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Elfin Cove sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,000 ft 305 m
few residents
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Port Althorp
Highest
3,360 ft 1,025 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Elfin Cove spans about 3,360 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 3,360 ft1,025 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Port Althorp | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elfin Cove | 160 ft50 m |
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
16 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 24 2020 Census
- Land area
- 168.4 sq mi + 35.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 58.1944° N, 136.3433° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 99825
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Excursion Inlet2,220 ft
- Elfin Cove1,000 ft
- Tenakee Springs490 ft
- Mud Bay300 ft
- Whitestone Logging Camp280 ft
- Game Creek280 ft
- Haines170 ft
- Hoonah91 ft
- Juneau58 ft
- Gustavus33 ft
- Pelican8 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska62nd highest of 355
- Towns in Hoonah-Angoon Census Areahighest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tarn Mountain3,740 ft
- Crag Mountain3,180 ft
- Pyramid Peak, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area3,130 ft
- Mount Althorp2,720 ft
- Bingham Peak2,179 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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, −2 ft at 58.2099° N, 136.1596° 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.
- Elfin Cove 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.