Point Baker, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
300 ft 95 m230 ft 70 m190 ft 60 m110 ft 35 m38 ft 12 m0 ft 0 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Point Baker sits at about 75 ft (23 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
75 ft 23 m
few residents
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Sumner Strait
Highest
300 ft 95 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
83 ft 25 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Point Baker spans about 300 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 | 75 ft23 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 300 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Sumner Strait | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Point Baker | −2 ft−1 m |
| Average of all land | 83 ft25 m |
| Nearest peak Perue Peak, 7.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 2,970 ft905 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 12 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 56.3528° N, 133.6211° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 99927
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Whale Pass480 ft
- Edna Bay320 ft
- Port Protection280 ft
- Kake200 ft
- Port Alexander140 ft
- Kupreanof110 ft
- Wrangell100 ft
- Point Baker75 ft
- Petersburg70 ft
- Naukati Bay62 ft
- Coffman Cove54 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska263rd highest of 355
- Towns in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area10th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Calder3,350 ft
- Red Bay Mountain3,010 ft
- Perue Peak2,970 ft
- El Capitan Peak2,570 ft
- Beauclerc Peak2,540 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, −2 ft at 56.3526° N, 133.6221° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.
- Point Baker 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. All public domain.