Mosquito Lake, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,540 ft 1,995 m4,930 ft 1,505 m4,130 ft 1,260 m2,530 ft 770 m920 ft 280 m120 ft 35 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
Mosquito Lake sits at about 2,210 ft (675 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,210 ft 675 m
few residents
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the southeast side
Highest
6,540 ft 1,995 m
on Four Winds Mountain
Average
2,290 ft 700 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mosquito Lake spans about 6,420 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Four Winds Mountain | 6,540 ft1,995 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 120 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mosquito Lake | 280 ft85 m |
| Average of all land | 2,290 ft700 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 120 2020 Census
- Land area
- 77.3 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 59.5292° N, 136.0911° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 99827
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lutak2,640 ft
- Excursion Inlet2,220 ft
- Mosquito Lake2,210 ft
- Elfin Cove1,000 ft
- Covenant Life950 ft
- Mud Bay300 ft
- Haines170 ft
- Klukwan140 ft
- Hoonah91 ft
- Skagway41 ft
- Gustavus33 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska17th highest of 355
- Towns in Haines Borough3rd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Emmerich6,870 ft
- Four Winds Mountain6,540 ft
- Mount Ashmun6,440 ft
- Chunekukleik Mountain5,750 ft
- Takhin Ridge5,500 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- 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, 110 ft at 59.4204° N, 135.9582° 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.
- Mosquito Lake 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.