Seward, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,260 ft 995 m2,440 ft 745 m2,040 ft 620 m1,220 ft 370 m410 ft 125 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Seward sits at about 86 ft (26 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
86 ft 26 m
most residents: 34–1,280 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Resurrection Bay
Highest
3,260 ft 995 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
Seward spans about 3,260 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 | 86 ft26 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,260 ft995 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Resurrection Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Seward | 89 ft27 m |
| Airport (SWD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 28 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
| Nearest peak Phoenix Peak, 2.2 mi west of the city limits | 5,130 ft1,565 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 2,882 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.5 sq mi + 7.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 199 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 60.1042° N, 149.4422° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Seward (SWD) 28 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99664
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sunrise2,020 ft
- Moose Pass750 ft
- Cooper Landing600 ft
- Primrose490 ft
- Chenega460 ft
- Crown Point460 ft
- Funny River190 ft
- Bear Creek160 ft
- Seward86 ft
- Whittier40 ft
- Lowell Point39 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska253rd highest of 355
- Towns in Kenai Peninsula Borough33rd highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheep Mountain, Kenai Peninsula Borough6,180 ft
- Mount Ascension5,640 ft
- Mount Adair5,187 ft
- Phoenix Peak5,130 ft
- Callisto Peak3,510 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.