Yakutat, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m470 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m230 ft 70 m78 ft 24 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Yakutat sits at about 78 ft (24 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
78 ft 24 m
most residents: 21–93 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Eleanor Cove
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
97 ft 30 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Yakutat spans about 620 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 | 78 ft24 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Eleanor Cove | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Yakutat | 87 ft27 m |
| Airport (YAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 40 ft12 m |
| Average of all land | 97 ft30 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Tebenkof, 2.1 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 4,220 ft1,285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 657 2020 Census
- Land area
- 100.4 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 59.5469° N, 139.7272° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Yakutat (YAK) 40 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 99689
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lutak2,640 ft
- Mosquito Lake2,210 ft
- Elfin Cove1,000 ft
- Covenant Life950 ft
- Mud Bay300 ft
- Haines170 ft
- Klukwan140 ft
- Yakutat78 ft
- Skagway41 ft
- Gustavus33 ft
- Pelican8 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska260th highest of 355
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Pinta5,560 ft
- Mount Ruhamah5,520 ft
- Mount Hendrickson4,560 ft
- Mount Tebenkof4,220 ft
- Slate Peak3,380 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.
- Yakutat 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.