Black River, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 190 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m550 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Black River sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 560–600 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Highest
630 ft 190 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside village limits
Black River spans about 130 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 630 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Black River | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (ART) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.8 mi west of the village limits | 331 ft101 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Jefferson County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,236 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 694 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0126° N, 75.7944° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Watertown International (ART) 331 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 13612
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Great Bend690 ft
- Rutland670 ft
- Deferiet660 ft
- Felts Mills620 ft
- Black River590 ft
- Fort Drum560 ft
- Le Ray540 ft
- Calcium520 ft
- Pamelia Center480 ft
- Pamelia460 ft
- Evans Mills430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,063rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Jefferson County19th highest of 60
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- West Mountain2,911 ft
- Underwood Hill, Jefferson County1,140 ft
- Orvis Hill1,100 ft
- Dry Hill, Jefferson County980 ft
- Oliphant Hill730 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (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 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.