Northway, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,590 ft 1,095 m3,120 ft 950 m2,880 ft 880 m2,400 ft 730 m1,930 ft 585 m1,690 ft 515 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
Northway sits at about 1,710 ft (520 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,710 ft 520 m
most residents: 1,700–2,220 ft
Lowest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,594 ft 1,095 m
on Cheneathda Hill
Average
2,100 ft 640 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Northway spans about 1,900 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 | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Cheneathda Hill | 3,594 ft1,095 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Northway | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Airport (ORT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,720 ft524 m |
| Average of all land | 2,100 ft640 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 234 2020 Census
- Land area
- 242.4 sq mi + 4.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 62.9617° N, 141.9372° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Tanana River → Yukon River → Bering Sea
- Airport
- Northway (ORT) 1,720 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99764
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Nabesna3,950 ft
- Chisana3,700 ft
- Chicken2,420 ft
- Mentasta Lake2,280 ft
- Slana2,200 ft
- Alcan Border2,060 ft
- Northway1,710 ft
- Tetlin1,660 ft
- Tok1,640 ft
- Tanacross1,550 ft
- Dot Lake Village1,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska32nd highest of 355
- Towns in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area4th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Fairplay5,546 ft
- Carden Hills5,550 ft
- Wellesley Mountain4,970 ft
- Airs Hill3,396 ft
- Chisana Mountain3,290 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.
- 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, 1,690 ft at 63.0401° N, 141.8340° 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.
- Northway 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.