Excursion Inlet, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,070 ft 1,545 m3,800 ft 1,160 m3,170 ft 965 m1,900 ft 580 m630 ft 195 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
Excursion Inlet sits at about 2,220 ft (675 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,220 ft 675 m
few residents
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Excursion Inlet
Highest
5,070 ft 1,545 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,120 ft 645 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Excursion Inlet spans about 5,070 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 | 2,220 ft675 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 5,070 ft1,545 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Excursion Inlet | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Excursion Inlet | 130 ft40 m |
| Airport (GST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.0 mi west of the CDP boundary | 36 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 2,120 ft645 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 40 2020 Census
- Land area
- 56.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 58.4214° N, 135.4367° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Gustavus (GST) 36 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 99827 99850
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
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 Alaska16th highest of 355
- Towns in Haines Borough2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Miller Peak4,790 ft
- Mount Golub4,200 ft
- Lulx̱ooshaa3,750 ft
- Snowy Mountain, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area3,420 ft
- Lone Mountain, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area2,150 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, −8 ft at 58.4096° N, 135.4329° 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.
- Excursion Inlet 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.