Benton, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,070 ft 325 m970 ft 295 m760 ft 230 m550 ft 165 m440 ft 135 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
Benton sits at about 910 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 275 m
most residents: 760–1,160 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the southwest side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside town boundaries
Benton spans about 840 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 | 910 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Benton | 840 ft255 m |
| Airport (PEO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi south of the town boundaries | 988 ft301 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Yates County, New York, United States
- Population
- 2,941 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.5 sq mi + 3.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 71 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7176° N, 77.0436° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Seneca River
- Airport
- Penn Yan/Yates County (PEO) 988 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 14415 14456 14527
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Potter1,030 ft
- Jerusalem950 ft
- Hall920 ft
- Benton910 ft
- Gorham900 ft
- Seneca850 ft
- Milo770 ft
- Penn Yan770 ft
- Keuka Park760 ft
- Torrey590 ft
- Village of Dresden500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York699th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Yates County9th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- The Pinnacle, Yates County1,400 ft
- Lazarus Hill1,090 ft
- Locust Hill1,020 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.