Babylon, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m170 ft 50 m140 ft 45 m85 ft 26 m28 ft 9 m0 ft 0 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
Babylon sits at about 37 ft (11 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
37 ft 11 m
most residents: 7–70 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Great South Bay
Highest
230 ft 70 m
on the northwest side
Average
40 ft 12 m
all land inside town boundaries
Babylon spans about 230 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 | 37 ft11 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Great South Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Babylon | 7 ft2 m |
| Airport (ISP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 99 ft30 m |
| Average of all land | 40 ft12 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
15 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Suffolk County, New York, United States
- Population
- 218,566 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.3 sq mi + 62.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,181 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6957° N, 73.3257° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Long Island Mac Arthur (ISP) 99 ft
- ZIP codes 9
- 11701 11702 11703 11704 11726 11729 11735 11757 11798
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Baywood59 ft
- North Babylon39 ft
- North Lindenhurst39 ft
- West Babylon38 ft
- Babylon37 ft
- West Bay Shore24 ft
- Brightwaters23 ft
- West Islip22 ft
- Lindenhurst18 ft
- Copiague15 ft
- Village of Babylon11 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,984th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Suffolk County94th highest of 162
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Dix Hills350 ft
- Signal Hill, Suffolk County320 ft
- Mannetto Hills300 ft
- Half Hollow Hills260 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).
- 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, −2 ft at 40.6649° N, 73.4137° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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. All public domain.