Kodiak, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,260 ft 385 m940 ft 290 m790 ft 240 m470 ft 145 m160 ft 50 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kodiak sits at about 97 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
97 ft 30 m
most residents: 36–160 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on St. Herman Harbor
Highest
1,260 ft 385 m
on Pillar Mountain
Average
330 ft 100 m
all land inside city limits
Kodiak spans about 1,260 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 | 97 ft30 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Pillar Mountain | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets St. Herman Harbor | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kodiak | 20 ft6 m |
| Airport (ADQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi southwest of the city limits | 79 ft24 m |
| Average of all land | 330 ft100 m |
| Nearest peak Heitman Mountain, 8.0 mi southwest of the city limits | 2,290 ft695 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 5,399 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,369 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 57.7900° N, 152.4072° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Chinitna Bay
- Airport
- Kodiak (ADQ) 79 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99615
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Old Harbor1,750 ft
- Karluk620 ft
- Aleneva520 ft
- Chiniak400 ft
- Larsen Bay210 ft
- Womens Bay140 ft
- Mill Bay100 ft
- Kodiak97 ft
- Port Lions93 ft
- Kodiak Station55 ft
- Ouzinkie49 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska242nd highest of 355
- Towns in Kodiak Island Borough9th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Center Mountain3,360 ft
- Sharatin Mountain2,850 ft
- Heitman Mountain2,290 ft
- Mount Ellison2,260 ft
- Mount Herman1,618 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.