Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,340 ft 3,455 m8,510 ft 2,595 m7,090 ft 2,160 m4,250 ft 1,295 m1,420 ft 430 m0 ft 0 m
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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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kenai Peninsula Borough averages about 1,980 ft (605 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Turnagain Arm to 11,340 ft on Mount Torbert.
Average elevation
1,980 ft 605 m
all land inside the borough
Highest
11,340 ft 3,455 m
on Mount Torbert
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Turnagain Arm
Kenai Peninsula Borough spans about 11,340 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Highest point Inside the borough, on Mount Torbert (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 11,340 ft3,455 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Turnagain Arm | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
166 mi west to east through Kalifornsky.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Alaska, United States
- Population
- 61,259 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16,017.1 sq mi + 8,704.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska 88%, Chinitna Bay 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring boroughs and census areas sharing a border, by average
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough2,930 ft
- Anchorage Municipality2,480 ft
- Chugach Census Area2,320 ft
- Kenai Peninsula Borough1,980 ft
- Kodiak Island Borough1,040 ft
- Lake and Peninsula Borough1,020 ft
- Bethel Census Area800 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Boroughs and census areas in Alaska10th highest of 26
- Counties in the United States630th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Torbert11,340 ft
- Mount Spurr11,070 ft
- Mount Nagishlamina10,970 ft
- Mount Chichantna10,830 ft
- Redoubt Volcano10,160 ft
All 37 towns in Kenai Peninsula Borough by typical elevation
- Sunrise2,020 ft
- Fox River1,030 ft
- Diamond Ridge910 ft
- Fritz Creek810 ft
- Nikolaevsk750 ft
- Moose Pass750 ft
- Cooper Landing600 ft
- Primrose490 ft
- Crown Point460 ft
- Halibut Cove360 ft
- Seldovia Village350 ft
- Homer290 ft
- Sterling270 ft
- Kachemak250 ft
- Happy Valley250 ft
- Clam Gulch250 ft
- Anchor Point230 ft
- Ninilchik190 ft
- Ridgeway190 ft
- Funny River190 ft
- Hope180 ft
- Bear Creek160 ft
- Beluga150 ft
- Kasilof150 ft
- Nikiski130 ft
- Point Possession130 ft
- Cohoe120 ft
- Tyonek120 ft
- Soldotna100 ft
- Salamatof96 ft
- Kalifornsky91 ft
- Kenai91 ft
- Seward86 ft
- Port Graham82 ft
- Nanwalek62 ft
- Lowell Point39 ft
- Seldovia33 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census borough boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 6 arc-second (≈610 ft, 185 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 0 ft at 59.9649° N, 149.5432° 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: neighboring boroughs and census areas and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the borough with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the borough.
- 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 (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Alaska: much of Alaska's 3DEP comes from airborne radar (IfSAR), good to a few meters.
- 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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.