Allegany, NY Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
2,430 ft 740 m2,170 ft 660 m2,040 ft 620 m1,780 ft 540 m1,520 ft 465 m1,390 ft 425 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Allegany sits at about 1,440 ft (440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,440 ft 440 m
most residents: 1,410–1,930 ft
Lowest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the west side
Highest
2,430 ft 740 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,810 ft 555 m
all land inside town boundaries
Allegany spans about 1,040 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 | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Allegany | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Average of all land | 1,810 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States
- Population
- 7,373 2024 est.
- Land area
- 70.9 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 104 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0901° N, 78.4942° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 4
- 14706 14753 14760 14778
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Humphrey1,820 ft
- Hinsdale1,730 ft
- Town of Olean1,520 ft
- Carrollton1,500 ft
- Weston Mills1,460 ft
- Portville1,450 ft
- Allegany1,440 ft
- Village of Allegany1,430 ft
- Limestone1,430 ft
- Olean1,420 ft
- St. Bonaventure1,410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York242nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Cattaraugus County31st highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hartzfelt Mountain2,406 ft
- Chapell Hill2,330 ft
- Mount Moriah2,300 ft
- Homer Hill1,980 ft
- Camel Back1,920 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, 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 town boundaries (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.