Alger, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m720 ft 220 m630 ft 195 m470 ft 140 m300 ft 90 m210 ft 65 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
Alger sits at about 290 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
290 ft 90 m
most residents: 240–540 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the south side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
320 ft 95 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Alger spans about 680 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 | 290 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alger | 270 ft85 m |
| Airport (BLI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 171 ft52 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft95 m |
| Nearest peak Chuckanut Mountain, 2.4 mi west of the CDP boundary | 2,300 ft700 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Skagit County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 507 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 195 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.6198° N, 122.3413° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Bellingham International (BLI) 171 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 98229 98233 98284
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sudden Valley520 ft
- Geneva440 ft
- Acme330 ft
- Alger290 ft
- Bellingham170 ft
- Bay View83 ft
- Sedro-Woolley58 ft
- Clear Lake, Skagit County58 ft
- Burlington35 ft
- Bow13 ft
- Edison7 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington383rd highest of 639
- Towns in Skagit County4th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lyman Hill4,310 ft
- Anderson Mountain3,370 ft
- Lookout Mountain, Whatcom County2,670 ft
- Blue Mountain, Whatcom County2,440 ft
- Chuckanut Mountain2,300 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: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Alger is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.