Seldovia, AK Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
180 ft 55 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m67 ft 20 m22 ft 7 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Seldovia sits at about 33 ft (10 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
33 ft 10 m
most residents: 8–58 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Seldovia Bay
Highest
180 ft 55 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
44 ft 13 m
all land inside city limits
Seldovia spans about 180 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 | 33 ft10 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 180 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Seldovia Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Seldovia | 28 ft8 m |
| Airport (SOV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 29 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 44 ft13 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 250 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 641 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 59.4381° N, 151.7114° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Seldovia (SOV) 29 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99663
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Diamond Ridge910 ft
- Fritz Creek810 ft
- Nikolaevsk750 ft
- Halibut Cove360 ft
- Seldovia Village350 ft
- Homer290 ft
- Kachemak250 ft
- Anchor Point230 ft
- Port Graham82 ft
- Nanwalek62 ft
- Seldovia33 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska309th highest of 355
- Towns in Kenai Peninsula Boroughlowest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Palisade Peak3,480 ft
- Mount Bede3,210 ft
- Mount Mills3,200 ft
- Ptarmigan Head2,920 ft
- Badger Hill1,840 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.