Bethany, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 440 m1,310 ft 400 m1,240 ft 380 m1,100 ft 335 m960 ft 295 m890 ft 270 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
Bethany sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 940–1,260 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,090 ft 335 m
all land inside town boundaries
Bethany spans about 560 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (GVQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi north of the town boundaries | 914 ft279 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Bethany.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Genesee County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,750 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi
- Density
- 49 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9196° N, 78.1268° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Black Creek
- Airport
- Genesee County (GVQ) 914 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 14005 14020 14054 14143 14525
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Middlebury1,200 ft
- Covington1,110 ft
- Bethany1,030 ft
- Village of Alexander970 ft
- Alexander970 ft
- Pavilion970 ft
- Wyoming970 ft
- Batavia900 ft
- Town of Batavia890 ft
- Stafford890 ft
- Le Roy880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York593rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Genesee Countyhighest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Burks Hill1,420 ft
- Scarff Hill1,400 ft
- Hurst Hill1,370 ft
- Skates Hill1,350 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.