Alma, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,550 ft 775 m2,290 ft 700 m2,160 ft 660 m1,900 ft 580 m1,650 ft 500 m1,520 ft 465 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Alma sits at about 2,050 ft (625 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,050 ft 625 m
most residents: 1,570–2,220 ft
Lowest
1,520 ft 465 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,550 ft 775 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,080 ft 635 m
all land inside town boundaries
Alma spans about 1,030 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 | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,550 ft775 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alma | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Airport (ELZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 2,125 ft648 m |
| Average of all land | 2,080 ft635 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Allegany County, New York, United States
- Population
- 761 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0126° N, 78.0578° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Wellsville Municipal/Tarantine Field (ELZ) 2,125 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 14707 14708 14715 14895
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clara Township, PA2,170 ft
- Oswayo Township, PA2,110 ft
- Alma2,050 ft
- Sharon Township, PA1,760 ft
- Willing1,730 ft
- Oswayo, PA1,720 ft
- Richburg1,660 ft
- Bolivar1,620 ft
- Village of Bolivar1,610 ft
- Stannards1,540 ft
- Shinglehouse, PA1,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York9th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Allegany County3rd highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Alma Hill2,550 ft
- White Hill, Allegany County2,520 ft
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Meservey Hill2,220 ft
- Rauber Hill2,120 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.