Colden, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,850 ft 565 m1,620 ft 495 m1,510 ft 460 m1,280 ft 390 m1,050 ft 320 m940 ft 285 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
Colden sits at about 1,440 ft (440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,440 ft 440 m
most residents: 1,110–1,690 ft
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
on the north side
Highest
1,850 ft 565 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,460 ft 445 m
all land inside town boundaries
Colden spans about 910 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 | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 940 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colden | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Erie County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,177 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 89 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6442° N, 78.6847° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- ZIP codes 5
- 14025 14033 14069 14080 14170
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Colden1,440 ft
- Concord1,370 ft
- Holland1,310 ft
- Boston960 ft
- Aurora930 ft
- East Aurora910 ft
- Village of Orchard Park860 ft
- North Boston860 ft
- Orchard Park840 ft
- Village of Hamburg810 ft
- Hamburg720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York246th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Erie County2nd highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- South Hill, Erie County1,770 ft
- East Hill, Erie County1,670 ft
- Vermont Hill1,600 ft
- Blanchard Hill, Erie County1,580 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.