Tanaina, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,500 ft 1,370 m3,470 ft 1,055 m2,950 ft 900 m1,930 ft 585 m900 ft 275 m380 ft 115 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
Tanaina sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 430–530 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Highest
4,500 ft 1,370 m
on the north side
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tanaina spans about 4,120 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 4,500 ft1,370 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tanaina | 500 ft150 m |
| Airport (IYS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 354 ft108 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 8,817 2020 Census
- Land area
- 30.3 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 291 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.6269° N, 149.4281° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Little Susitna River → Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Wasilla (IYS) 354 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99654
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Buffalo Soapstone810 ft
- Fishhook670 ft
- Tanaina480 ft
- North Lakes440 ft
- Farm Loop440 ft
- Wasilla400 ft
- Meadow Lakes350 ft
- South Lakes340 ft
- Palmer270 ft
- Knik-Fairview260 ft
- Gateway240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska114th highest of 355
- Towns in Matanuska-Susitna Borough11th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Montana Peak6,930 ft
- Granite Peak6,690 ft
- Lava Mountain6,680 ft
- Thunder Bird Peak6,590 ft
- Pioneer Peak6,310 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.
- Tanaina 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.