Nuiqsut, AK Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

57 ft 17 m45 ft 14 m38 ft 12 m26 ft 8 m13 ft 4 m7 ft 2 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Nuiqsut sits at about 39 ft (12 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

39 ft 12 m

most residents: 35–41 ft

Lowest

7 ft 2 m

on the north side

Highest

57 ft 17 m

near the middle

Average

27 ft 8 m

all land inside city limits

Nuiqsut spans about 50 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	39 ft12 m
Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle	57 ft17 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side	7 ft2 m
Town center USGS map point for Nuiqsut	24 ft7 m
Average of all land	27 ft8 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States
Population: 486 2024 est.
Land area: 8.6 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
Density: 56 per sq mi
Coordinates: 70.2175° N, 150.9764° W
Time zone: Alaska UTC−9 / −8
Drains to: Harrison Bay
ZIP codes 1: 99789

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Wiseman2,340 ft
Anaktuvuk Pass2,120 ft
Arctic Village2,080 ft
Coldfoot1,600 ft
Evansville760 ft
Atqasuk94 ft
Nuiqsut39 ft
Kaktovik36 ft
Prudhoe Bay35 ft
Wainwright28 ft
Utqiaġvik23 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Alaska297th highest of 355
Towns in North Slope Borough3rd highest of 9

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Kachemach Mound, North Slope Borough100 ft
Kachemach Mound, North Slope Borough45 ft
Pikonik Mound28 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.