Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,300 ft 2,225 m5,480 ft 1,670 m4,560 ft 1,390 m2,740 ft 835 m910 ft 280 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
Ketchikan Gateway Borough averages about 1,740 ft (530 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Willard Inlet to 7,300 ft on Mount Wilson.
Average elevation
1,740 ft 530 m
all land inside the borough
Highest
7,300 ft 2,225 m
on Mount Wilson
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Willard Inlet
Ketchikan Gateway Borough spans about 7,300 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 | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside the borough, on Mount Wilson (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 7,300 ft2,225 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Willard Inlet | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
76 mi west to east through Ketchikan.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Alaska, United States
- Population
- 13,677 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,857.1 sq mi + 1,820.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring boroughs and census areas sharing a border, by average
- Wrangell City and Borough1,760 ft
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough1,740 ft
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area770 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Boroughs and census areas in Alaska12th highest of 26
- Counties in the United States710th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Wilson7,300 ft
- Mount Hayford6,140 ft
- Dome Peak5,240 ft
- Spur Mountain4,930 ft
- Mount Reid4,510 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 3 arc-second (≈300 ft, 93 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, −4 ft at 55.3976° N, 131.4785° 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.