Chemung County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,910 ft 585 m1,580 ft 485 m1,420 ft 430 m1,090 ft 330 m760 ft 230 m590 ft 180 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Chemung County averages about 1,310 ft (400 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 590 ft on the northwest side to 1,910 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,310 ft 400 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,910 ft 585 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northwest side
Chemung County spans about 1,320 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 | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,910 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through Elmira.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 81,115 2024 est.
- Land area
- 407.3 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 199 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Tioga County, PA1,730 ft
- Steuben County1,620 ft
- Bradford County, PA1,380 ft
- Schuyler County1,350 ft
- Chemung County1,310 ft
- Tioga County1,260 ft
- Tompkins County1,240 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New York20th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States997th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Martin Hill, Chemung County1,900 ft
- Red Chalk Hill1,880 ft
- Terry Hill1,880 ft
- Townley Hill1,880 ft
- Park Hill, Chemung County1,830 ft
All 20 towns in Chemung County by typical elevation
- Erin1,540 ft
- Town of Baldwin1,340 ft
- Catlin1,320 ft
- Van Etten1,260 ft
- Breesport1,170 ft
- Veteran1,020 ft
- Chemung990 ft
- Big Flats960 ft
- Horseheads North940 ft
- Horseheads930 ft
- Village of Horseheads920 ft
- Pine Valley910 ft
- Town of Elmira890 ft
- West Elmira890 ft
- Elmira Heights880 ft
- Southport870 ft
- Ashland870 ft
- Elmira860 ft
- Wellsburg840 ft
- Millport720 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.