Platinum, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,890 ft 575 m1,420 ft 435 m1,180 ft 360 m710 ft 215 m240 ft 70 m0 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Platinum sits at about 270 ft (80 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
270 ft 80 m
few residents
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Goodnews Bay
Highest
1,892 ft 577 m
on Red Mountain
Average
350 ft 105 m
all land inside city limits
Platinum spans about 1,890 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 | 270 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Red Mountain | 1,892 ft577 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Goodnews Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Platinum | 0 ft0 m |
| Average of all land | 350 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 52 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 59.0131° N, 161.8164° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Kuskokwim Bay
- ZIP codes 1
- 99651
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Togiak340 ft
- Platinum270 ft
- Goodnews Bay45 ft
- Manokotak36 ft
- Kongiganak28 ft
- Eek22 ft
- Quinhagak18 ft
- Twin Hills13 ft
- Kwigillingok10 ft
- Kipnuk9 ft
- Tuntutuliak8 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska166th highest of 355
- Towns in Bethel Census Area5th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ikuktlitlig Mountain2,560 ft
- Red Mountain, Bethel Census Area1,892 ft
- Susie Mountain1,812 ft
- Chagvan Mountain1,680 ft
- Virgo Mountain1,406 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; 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 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.