Point Possession, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m170 ft 55 m140 ft 45 m86 ft 26 m29 ft 9 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Point Possession sits at about 130 ft (40 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
130 ft 40 m
few residents
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Cook Inlet
Highest
230 ft 70 m
near the middle
Average
120 ft 35 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Point Possession spans about 230 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 | 130 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Cook Inlet | 0 ft0 m |
| Average of all land | 120 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the middle of Point Possession.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 9 2020 Census
- Land area
- 41.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 60.8794° N, 150.8176° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- ZIP codes 1
- 99611
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sterling270 ft
- Ridgeway190 ft
- Funny River190 ft
- Beluga150 ft
- Nikiski130 ft
- Point Possession130 ft
- Tyonek120 ft
- Soldotna100 ft
- Salamatof96 ft
- Kalifornsky91 ft
- Kenai91 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska223rd highest of 355
- Towns in Kenai Peninsula Borough26th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Temptation Peak5,330 ft
- North Yuyanq’ Ch’ex5,130 ft
- Mount Susitna4,403 ft
- Round Mountain, Kenai Peninsula Borough3,890 ft
- Hideout Hill2,860 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, 0 ft at 61.0196° N, 150.4462° 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 Possession 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.