Valdez, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,180 ft 1,885 m4,640 ft 1,415 m3,860 ft 1,180 m2,320 ft 705 m770 ft 235 m0 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Valdez sits at about 56 ft (17 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
56 ft 17 m
most residents: 32–340 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Port Valdez
Highest
6,180 ft 1,885 m
on the north side
Average
1,830 ft 555 m
all land inside city limits
Valdez spans about 6,180 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 | 56 ft17 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 6,180 ft1,885 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Port Valdez | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Valdez | 23 ft7 m |
| Airport (VDZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 128 ft39 m |
| Average of all land | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Schrader, 5.5 mi northeast of the city limits | 7,300 ft2,225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
16 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Chugach Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 3,715 2024 est.
- Land area
- 211.7 sq mi + 60.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.1308° N, 146.3483° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Valdez Pioneer Field (VDZ) 128 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99686
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Glacier View4,650 ft
- Eureka Roadhouse3,040 ft
- Mendeltna2,500 ft
- Nelchina2,460 ft
- Tolsona2,120 ft
- Tonsina2,030 ft
- Kenny Lake1,470 ft
- Willow Creek1,370 ft
- Tatitlek510 ft
- Cordova80 ft
- Valdez56 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska281st highest of 355
- Towns in Chugach Census Area4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Shouplina8,520 ft
- Mount Logan8,470 ft
- Mount Schrader7,300 ft
- Meteorite Mountain6,550 ft
- Ellamar Mountain2,960 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. All public domain.