Russian Mission, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
340 ft 105 m270 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m150 ft 45 m75 ft 23 m37 ft 11 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Russian Mission sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
160 ft 50 m
few residents
Lowest
37 ft 11 m
on the northwest side
Highest
340 ft 105 m
on the southwest side
Average
160 ft 50 m
all land inside city limits
Russian Mission spans about 303 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 340 ft105 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 37 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Russian Mission | 65 ft20 m |
| Airport (RSH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 58 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft50 m |
| Nearest peak Bend Mountain, Kusilvak Census Area, 9.1 mi southwest of the city limits (NGS survey) | 1,527 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 403 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 75 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.7850° N, 161.3203° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Yukon River → Bering Sea
- Airport
- Russian Mission (RSH) 58 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99657
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pilot Station290 ft
- St. Mary's260 ft
- Russian Mission160 ft
- Marshall160 ft
- Holy Cross150 ft
- Aniak88 ft
- Upper Kalskag88 ft
- Lower Kalskag61 ft
- Tuluksak40 ft
- Akiak27 ft
- Akiachak20 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska202nd highest of 355
- Towns in Kusilvak Census Area4th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Chiniklik2,620 ft
- Pilcher Mountain1,950 ft
- Chase Mountain1,870 ft
- Dogfish Mountain1,800 ft
- Bend Mountain, Kusilvak Census Area1,527 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.