Cayuga County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,460 ft 445 m1,260 ft 385 m850 ft 260 m450 ft 135 m250 ft 75 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cayuga County averages about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 250 ft on the north side to 1,870 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
800 ft 245 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the south side
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the north side
Cayuga County spans about 1,620 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
44 mi south to north through Auburn.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 74,567 2024 est.
- Land area
- 691.6 sq mi + 172.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 108 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 50%, Appalachian Plateaus 50%
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cortland County1,480 ft
- Tompkins County1,240 ft
- Onondaga County800 ft
- Cayuga County800 ft
- Seneca County670 ft
- Oswego County580 ft
- Jefferson County550 ft
- Wayne County430 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New York37th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States1,800th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Jewett Hill1,447 ft
- Oak Hill, Cayuga County1,340 ft
- Miller Hill, Cayuga County1,220 ft
- Bennett Hill, Cayuga County1,220 ft
- Cottle Hill990 ft
All 34 towns in Cayuga County by typical elevation
- Sempronius1,610 ft
- Summerhill1,510 ft
- Niles1,190 ft
- Venice1,150 ft
- Locke1,110 ft
- Scipio1,050 ft
- Moravia1,010 ft
- Genoa1,000 ft
- Sennett800 ft
- Owasco770 ft
- Melrose Park770 ft
- Fleming760 ft
- Village of Moravia740 ft
- Auburn710 ft
- Ledyard550 ft
- Throop550 ft
- Aurelius520 ft
- Springport500 ft
- Village of Aurora490 ft
- Union Springs480 ft
- Brutus470 ft
- Cayuga460 ft
- Meridian460 ft
- Village of Cato450 ft
- Ira440 ft
- Weedsport430 ft
- Conquest420 ft
- Cato420 ft
- Victory420 ft
- Mentz420 ft
- Montezuma410 ft
- Port Byron410 ft
- Sterling330 ft
- Fair Haven300 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.