Wasilla, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m430 ft 130 m390 ft 120 m310 ft 95 m220 ft 70 m180 ft 55 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
Wasilla sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 320–450 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the south side
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the north side
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside city limits
Wasilla spans about 340 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 180 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wasilla | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (IYS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 354 ft108 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 10,318 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.4 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 833 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.5814° N, 149.4394° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Wasilla (IYS) 354 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 99623 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 Alaska131st highest of 355
- Towns in Matanuska-Susitna Borough15th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bold Peak7,640 ft
- Peeking Mountain6,960 ft
- Granite Peak6,690 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 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.