Fairbanks, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m930 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m680 ft 205 m510 ft 155 m420 ft 130 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
Fairbanks sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 440–450 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the west side
Highest
1,099 ft 335 m
on Birch Hill
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Fairbanks spans about 680 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Birch Hill | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairbanks | 450 ft135 m |
| Airport (FAI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi west of the city limits | 439 ft134 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
| Nearest peak Ester Dome, 7.7 mi west of the city limits | 2,370 ft720 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 31,732 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.8 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 998 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 64.8378° N, 147.7164° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Tanana River → Yukon River → Bering Sea
- Airport
- Fairbanks International (FAI) 439 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 99701 99703 99709 99712
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fox910 ft
- Goldstream870 ft
- Steele Creek840 ft
- Farmers Loop740 ft
- Ester740 ft
- Chena Ridge650 ft
- North Pole490 ft
- Badger480 ft
- South Van Horn450 ft
- Fairbanks440 ft
- College440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska121st highest of 355
- Towns in Fairbanks North Star Borough16th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chena Dome4,427 ft
- Wickersham Dome3,203 ft
- Twin Buttes3,030 ft
- Murphy Dome2,934 ft
- Ester Dome2,370 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.