Skwentna, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,990 ft 605 m1,510 ft 460 m1,270 ft 390 m790 ft 240 m310 ft 95 m73 ft 22 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Skwentna sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 140–1,390 ft
Lowest
73 ft 22 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,990 ft 605 m
on the west side
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Skwentna spans about 1,917 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 73 ft22 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Skwentna | 170 ft50 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
| Nearest peak Dickason Mountain, 7.6 mi southwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 4,696 ft1,431 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
28 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 62 2020 Census
- Land area
- 438.7 sq mi + 7.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.9903° N, 151.3978° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Yentna River → Gulf of Alaska
- ZIP codes 2
- 99667 99688
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Petersville1,400 ft
- Chase1,060 ft
- Trapper Creek410 ft
- Susitna North400 ft
- Talkeetna390 ft
- Skwentna350 ft
- Houston260 ft
- Willow230 ft
- Big Lake180 ft
- Beluga150 ft
- Susitna100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska145th highest of 355
- Towns in Matanuska-Susitna Borough19th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- McDoel Peak5,190 ft
- Dickason Mountain4,696 ft
- Mount Yenlo3,973 ft
- Beluga Mountain3,707 ft
- Porcupine Butte2,099 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 72 ft at 61.8185° N, 150.8288° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Skwentna 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.