Petersville, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,880 ft 1,490 m3,810 ft 1,160 m3,280 ft 1,000 m2,210 ft 670 m1,140 ft 345 m600 ft 185 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
Petersville sits at about 1,400 ft (425 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,400 ft 425 m
few residents
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the south side
Highest
4,880 ft 1,490 m
on Dutch Hills
Average
1,620 ft 495 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Petersville spans about 4,280 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 | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Dutch Hills | 4,880 ft1,490 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Petersville | 1,650 ft500 m |
| Average of all land | 1,620 ft495 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 27 2020 Census
- Land area
- 461.7 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 62.4964° N, 150.7656° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- ZIP codes 1
- 99683
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Petersville1,400 ft
- Chase1,060 ft
- Trapper Creek410 ft
- Susitna North400 ft
- Talkeetna390 ft
- Meadow Lakes350 ft
- Skwentna350 ft
- Houston260 ft
- Willow230 ft
- Big Lake180 ft
- Susitna100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska44th highest of 355
- Towns in Matanuska-Susitna Borough5th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Avalanche Spire10,040 ft
- Dutch Hills4,880 ft
- Mount Yenlo3,973 ft
- Mount Kliskon3,950 ft
- Fairview Mountain3,276 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, 600 ft at 62.2218° N, 150.6393° 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.
- Petersville 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.