Prudhoe Bay, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
100 ft 30 m77 ft 24 m65 ft 20 m39 ft 12 m13 ft 4 m0 ft 0 m
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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
Prudhoe Bay sits at about 35 ft (11 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
35 ft 11 m
most residents: 12–39 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Simpson Lagoon
Highest
100 ft 30 m
on the southwest side
Average
28 ft 9 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Prudhoe Bay spans about 100 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 | 35 ft11 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 100 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Simpson Lagoon | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prudhoe Bay | 39 ft12 m |
| Airport (SCC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 67 ft20 m |
| Average of all land | 28 ft9 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 1,310 2020 Census
- Land area
- 390.4 sq mi + 179.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 70.2553° N, 148.3372° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Beaufort Sea
- Airport
- Deadhorse (SCC) 67 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 99519 99734
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wiseman2,340 ft
- Anaktuvuk Pass2,120 ft
- Arctic Village2,080 ft
- Coldfoot1,600 ft
- Evansville760 ft
- Venetie570 ft
- Atqasuk94 ft
- Nuiqsut39 ft
- Kaktovik36 ft
- Prudhoe Bay35 ft
- Utqiaġvik23 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska306th highest of 355
- Towns in North Slope Borough5th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beechey Mound59 ft
- Prudhoe Mound41 ft
- Thetis Mound39 ft
- Kuparuk Mound29 ft
- Jones Mound28 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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, −65 ft at 70.2974° N, 148.5204° 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.
- Prudhoe Bay 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.