Meadow Lakes, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,800 ft 1,160 m2,900 ft 885 m2,450 ft 745 m1,540 ft 470 m640 ft 195 m190 ft 60 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Meadow Lakes sits at about 350 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 110 m
most residents: 260–430 ft
Lowest
190 ft 60 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,800 ft 1,160 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Meadow Lakes spans about 3,610 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 | 350 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,800 ft1,160 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 190 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Meadow Lakes | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (IYS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 354 ft108 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 9,197 2020 Census
- Land area
- 75.5 sq mi + 3.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 122 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.6247° N, 149.6011° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Wasilla (IYS) 354 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 99623 99652 99654 99688
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fishhook670 ft
- Tanaina480 ft
- North Lakes440 ft
- Farm Loop440 ft
- Wasilla400 ft
- Meadow Lakes350 ft
- South Lakes340 ft
- Houston260 ft
- Knik-Fairview260 ft
- Gateway240 ft
- Big Lake180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska142nd highest of 355
- Towns in Matanuska-Susitna Borough18th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peeking Mountain6,960 ft
- Montana Peak6,930 ft
- Granite Peak6,690 ft
- Thunder Bird Peak6,590 ft
- Pioneer Peak6,310 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Meadow Lakes is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.