Palmer, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m420 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m290 ft 90 m210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 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
Palmer sits at about 270 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 80 m
most residents: 220–320 ft
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the southwest side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the north side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside city limits
Palmer spans about 350 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 | 270 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 160 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Palmer | 250 ft75 m |
| Airport (PAQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 249 ft76 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
| Nearest peak Pioneer Peak, 7.8 mi south of the city limits | 6,310 ft1,925 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 6,626 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,306 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.5997° N, 149.1128° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Warren "bud" Woods Palmer Municipal (PAQ) 249 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99645
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lazy Mountain2,130 ft
- Buffalo Soapstone810 ft
- Fishhook670 ft
- Tanaina480 ft
- North Lakes440 ft
- Farm Loop440 ft
- South Lakes340 ft
- Palmer270 ft
- Gateway240 ft
- Knik River150 ft
- Butte100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska167th highest of 355
- Towns in Matanuska-Susitna Borough21st highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bold Peak7,640 ft
- Montana Peak6,930 ft
- Granite Peak6,690 ft
- Lava Mountain6,680 ft
- Pioneer Peak6,310 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.
- 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, 130 ft at 61.5757° N, 149.1213° 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.
- 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. All public domain.