Big Flats, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,560 ft 475 m1,440 ft 440 m1,210 ft 370 m970 ft 295 m850 ft 260 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
Big Flats sits at about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 295 m
most residents: 890–1,430 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on Steege Hill
Average
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside town boundaries
Big Flats spans about 950 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 | 960 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Steege Hill | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Flats | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (ELM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 955 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 1,230 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chemung County, New York, United States
- Population
- 7,474 2024 est.
- Land area
- 44.5 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 168 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1373° N, 76.9369° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Chemung River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Elmira/Corning Regional (ELM) 955 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 14814 14830 14845 14871 14903
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Caton1,600 ft
- Catlin1,320 ft
- Town of Corning1,070 ft
- Big Flats960 ft
- South Corning940 ft
- Corning940 ft
- Horseheads930 ft
- Village of Horseheads920 ft
- Town of Elmira890 ft
- West Elmira890 ft
- Elmira Heights880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York648th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Chemung County8th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Harris Hill, Chemung County1,730 ft
- Hawley Hill1,710 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.