Saxman, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,720 ft 525 m1,290 ft 395 m1,080 ft 330 m650 ft 200 m220 ft 70 m10 ft 3 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
Saxman sits at about 190 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
190 ft 60 m
most residents: 40–190 ft
Lowest
9 ft 3 m
near the middle
Highest
1,720 ft 525 m
at the foot of the California Ridge
Average
450 ft 135 m
all land inside city limits
Saxman spans about 1,711 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 | 190 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the California Ridge | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 9 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Saxman | 68 ft21 m |
| Airport (KTN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi northwest of the city limits | 92 ft28 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft135 m |
| Nearest peak Mahoney Mountain, 4.8 mi north of the city limits | 3,400 ft1,035 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 377 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 390 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 55.3183° N, 131.5958° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Ketchikan International (KTN) 92 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99901
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Loring560 ft
- Kasaan540 ft
- Saxman190 ft
- Ketchikan170 ft
- Thorne Bay140 ft
- Hollis120 ft
- Klawock73 ft
- Craig69 ft
- Metlakatla67 ft
- Coffman Cove54 ft
- Hydaburg52 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska192nd highest of 355
- Towns in Ketchikan Gateway Borough2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mahoney Mountain3,390 ft
- Diana Mountain3,010 ft
- High Mountain2,480 ft
- Nipple Mountain2,070 ft
- Black Mountain, Ketchikan Gateway Borough2,070 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 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. All public domain.