Newhalen, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
220 ft 70 m180 ft 55 m150 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m62 ft 19 m39 ft 12 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
Newhalen sits at about 82 ft (25 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
82 ft 25 m
most residents: 54–130 ft
Lowest
39 ft 12 m
on the northeast side
Highest
220 ft 70 m
on the west side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside city limits
Newhalen spans about 181 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 | 82 ft25 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 220 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 39 ft12 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Newhalen | 78 ft24 m |
| Airport (ILI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi north of the city limits | 192 ft59 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
| Nearest peak Taq' Nust'in Mountain, 8.1 mi northwest of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,384 ft727 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 149 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.9 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 25 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 59.7200° N, 154.8972° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Kvichak River → Chinitna Bay
- Airport
- Iliamna (ILI) 192 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99606
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Port Alsworth830 ft
- Pope-Vannoy Landing370 ft
- New Stuyahok340 ft
- Nondalton320 ft
- Pedro Bay270 ft
- Kokhanok230 ft
- Koliganek190 ft
- Igiugig120 ft
- Newhalen82 ft
- Iliamna73 ft
- Levelock60 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska256th highest of 355
- Towns in Lake and Peninsula Borough11th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Roadhouse Mountain3,240 ft
- Groundhog Mountain3,080 ft
- Hoknede Mountain2,940 ft
- Taq' Nust'in Mountain2,384 ft
- Sharp Mountain2,380 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.