Fern Acres, HI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,660 ft 505 m1,570 ft 480 m1,520 ft 465 m1,430 ft 435 m1,340 ft 410 m1,300 ft 395 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fern Acres sits at about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,460 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,410–1,600 ft
Lowest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the north side
Highest
1,660 ft 505 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,500 ft 455 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fern Acres spans about 360 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 | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fern Acres | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Airport (ITO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi north of the CDP boundary | 38 ft12 m |
| Average of all land | 1,500 ft455 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States
- Population
- 1,965 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.8 sq mi
- Density
- 289 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 19.5122° N, 155.0803° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Hilo International (ITO) 38 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96771
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Royal Hawaiian Estates3,000 ft
- Fern Forest2,190 ft
- Eden Roc1,770 ft
- Mountain View1,740 ft
- Fern Acres1,460 ft
- Hawaiian Acres1,000 ft
- Ainaloa710 ft
- Tiki Gardens670 ft
- Kurtistown640 ft
- Orchidlands Estates490 ft
- Keaau300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Hawaii18th highest of 163
- Towns in Hawaii County13th highest of 54
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mauna Kea13,803 ft
- Mauna Loa13,670 ft
- Hualālai8,260 ft
- Kaumu o Kaleihoohie5,490 ft
- Puʻukiaʻi1,990 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).
- 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: local mean sea level (Hawaii has no national vertical datum). NGS plans to replace local mean sea level with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Fern Acres 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.