Steele Creek, AK Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
2,410 ft 735 m1,920 ft 585 m1,680 ft 510 m1,190 ft 365 m700 ft 215 m460 ft 140 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
Steele Creek sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 630–1,120 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,410 ft 735 m
on Gilmore Dome
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Steele Creek spans about 1,960 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Gilmore Dome | 2,410 ft735 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (FAI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 439 ft134 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.8 mi south to north through the middle of Steele Creek.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 6,437 2020 Census
- Land area
- 92.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 69 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 64.9037° N, 147.5272° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Tanana River → Yukon River → Bering Sea
- Airport
- Fairbanks International (FAI) 439 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99712
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Two Rivers910 ft
- Fox910 ft
- Goldstream870 ft
- Steele Creek840 ft
- Farmers Loop740 ft
- Chena Ridge650 ft
- North Pole490 ft
- Badger480 ft
- South Van Horn450 ft
- Fairbanks440 ft
- College440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska72nd highest of 355
- Towns in Fairbanks North Star Borough4th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chena Dome4,427 ft
- Wickersham Dome3,203 ft
- Twin Buttes3,030 ft
- Murphy Dome2,934 ft
- Ester Dome2,370 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.
- Steele Creek 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.