Whittier, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,130 ft 1,260 m3,100 ft 945 m2,580 ft 785 m1,550 ft 470 m520 ft 155 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Whittier sits at about 40 ft (12 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
40 ft 12 m
most residents: 33–40 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Passage Canal
Highest
4,130 ft 1,260 m
on Maynard Mountain
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Whittier spans about 4,130 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 | 40 ft12 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Maynard Mountain | 4,130 ft1,260 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Passage Canal | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Whittier | 31 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
| Nearest peak Carpathian Peak, 5.7 mi southwest of the city limits | 5,990 ft1,825 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Chugach Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 253 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.3 sq mi + 7.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 60.7731° N, 148.6839° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- ZIP codes 1
- 99693
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sunrise2,020 ft
- Moose Pass750 ft
- Cooper Landing600 ft
- Primrose490 ft
- Chenega460 ft
- Crown Point460 ft
- Hope180 ft
- Anchorage180 ft
- Bear Creek160 ft
- Knik River150 ft
- Whittier40 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska296th highest of 355
- Towns in Chugach Census Arealowest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Carpathian Peak5,990 ft
- Bench Peak5,500 ft
- Begich Peak4,640 ft
- Hibbs Peak4,400 ft
- Maynard Mountain4,130 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.