Butternuts, NY Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
2,040 ft 620 m1,780 ft 545 m1,650 ft 505 m1,390 ft 425 m1,140 ft 345 m1,010 ft 305 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
Butternuts sits at about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,060–1,770 ft
Lowest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,040 ft 620 m
on the south side
Average
1,470 ft 450 m
all land inside town boundaries
Butternuts spans about 1,030 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 2,040 ft620 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 1,470 ft450 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.0 mi west to east through the middle of Butternuts.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Otsego County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,650 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.8 sq mi
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4705° N, 75.3240° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 6
- 13776 13808 13809 13825 13843 13849
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Guilford1,540 ft
- Butternuts1,500 ft
- Town of Norwich1,350 ft
- Morris1,330 ft
- Village of Morris1,150 ft
- Wells Bridge1,150 ft
- Otego1,150 ft
- Unadilla1,140 ft
- Gilbertsville1,070 ft
- Village of Otego1,060 ft
- Village of Unadilla1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York197th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Otsego County9th highest of 48
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- West Kill Mountain3,890 ft
- North Dome3,608 ft
- Bearpen Mountain3,590 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
- North Knob2,692 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.