Skagway, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,100 ft 1,250 m3,080 ft 940 m2,560 ft 780 m1,540 ft 470 m510 ft 155 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Skagway sits at about 41 ft (12 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
41 ft 12 m
most residents: 28–210 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Taiya Inlet
Highest
4,100 ft 1,250 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,420 ft 435 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Skagway spans about 4,100 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 | 41 ft12 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 4,100 ft1,250 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Taiya Inlet | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Skagway | 37 ft11 m |
| Airport (SGY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 44 ft13 m |
| Average of all land | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Nearest peak Face Mountain, 3.4 mi west of the CDP boundary | 5,530 ft1,685 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Skagway Municipality, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 1,164 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.5 sq mi
- Density
- 123 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 59.4583° N, 135.3139° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Skagway (SGY) 44 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99840
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lutak2,640 ft
- Excursion Inlet2,220 ft
- Mosquito Lake2,210 ft
- Covenant Life950 ft
- Mud Bay300 ft
- Haines170 ft
- Klukwan140 ft
- Hoonah91 ft
- Juneau58 ft
- Skagway41 ft
- Gustavus33 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska294th highest of 355
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sawtooth Range7,310 ft
- Mount Van Wagenen6,970 ft
- Mount Carmack6,710 ft
- Snow Top6,520 ft
- Face Mountain5,530 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.
- 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.
- Skagway 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. All public domain.