Wales, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m890 ft 270 m740 ft 225 m440 ft 135 m150 ft 45 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
Wales sits at about 37 ft (11 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
37 ft 11 m
few residents
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Chukchi Sea
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
210 ft 65 m
all land inside city limits
Wales spans about 1,180 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 37 ft11 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Chukchi Sea | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wales | 4 ft1 m |
| Average of all land | 210 ft65 m |
| Nearest peak Cape Mountain, 1.9 mi southeast of the city limits | 2,290 ft700 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 164 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 73 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 65.6092° N, 168.0875° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Chukchi Sea
- ZIP codes 1
- 99783
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Diomede840 ft
- White Mountain140 ft
- Savoonga66 ft
- Deering38 ft
- Wales37 ft
- Golovin33 ft
- Nome33 ft
- Brevig Mission29 ft
- Teller10 ft
- Port Clarence9 ft
- Shishmaref6 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska302nd highest of 355
- Towns in Nome Census Area7th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brooks Mountain2,850 ft
- Cape Mountain2,290 ft
- Ears Peak2,250 ft
- Big Potato Mountain1,410 ft
- Little Potato Mountain1,410 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- 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, 0 ft at 65.5987° N, 168.0896° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.