Adams Center, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 235 m700 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m590 ft 180 m510 ft 155 m470 ft 145 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
Adams Center sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 560–690 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the north side
Highest
780 ft 235 m
on the northeast side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Adams Center spans about 310 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 780 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 470 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Adams Center | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (ART) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi north of the CDP boundary | 331 ft101 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Jefferson County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,492 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 307 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8601° N, 76.0055° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Watertown International (ART) 331 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 13606
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Worth1,320 ft
- Lorraine870 ft
- Rodman850 ft
- Adams Center640 ft
- Village of Adams630 ft
- Adams630 ft
- Town of Watertown530 ft
- Belleville470 ft
- Henderson330 ft
- Hounsfield300 ft
- Sackets Harbor290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York972nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Jefferson County13th highest of 60
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Underwood Hill, Jefferson County1,140 ft
- Dry Hill, Jefferson County980 ft
- Pine Hill, Jefferson County580 ft
- Prospect Hill, Jefferson County530 ft
- Torrey Hill520 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 450 ft at 43.8807° N, 76.0057° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Adams Center is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.