McGrath, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m930 ft 285 m830 ft 255 m630 ft 190 m420 ft 130 m320 ft 100 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
McGrath sits at about 340 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
340 ft 105 m
most residents: 330–340 ft
Lowest
320 ft 100 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
at the foot of the Roundabout Mountains
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside city limits
McGrath spans about 810 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 | 340 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Roundabout Mountains | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 320 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for McGrath | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (MCG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 343 ft105 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 284 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.2 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 62.9564° N, 155.5958° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Kuskokwim River → Bering Sea
- Airport
- Mc Grath (MCG) 343 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99627
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Minchumina780 ft
- Lime Village700 ft
- Takotna690 ft
- Red Devil500 ft
- Flat490 ft
- Nikolai430 ft
- Ruby370 ft
- McGrath340 ft
- Sleetmute280 ft
- Stony River220 ft
- Crooked Creek200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska147th highest of 355
- Towns in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area26th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Takotna Mountain3,208 ft
- Mount Joaquin3,007 ft
- Halfway Mountain, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area1,861 ft
- Vinasale Mountain1,688 ft
- Appel Mountain1,573 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.
- 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, 320 ft at 62.9690° N, 155.6390° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.