Danby, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,850 ft 565 m1,550 ft 475 m1,400 ft 430 m1,110 ft 340 m810 ft 245 m660 ft 200 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
Danby sits at about 1,320 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 405 m
most residents: 1,030–1,590 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the west side
Highest
1,850 ft 565 m
on Beech Hill
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside town boundaries
Danby spans about 1,190 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 | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Beech Hill | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 660 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Danby | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Airport (ITH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi north of the town boundaries | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Tompkins County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,348 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 63 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3523° N, 76.4808° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Seneca River
- Airport
- Ithaca Tompkins International (ITH) 1,099 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 13864 14817 14850 14867 14883
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Danby1,320 ft
- Newfield1,210 ft
- Slaterville Springs1,120 ft
- Town of Ithaca930 ft
- South Hill930 ft
- West Danby920 ft
- Brooktondale920 ft
- Forest Home920 ft
- East Ithaca880 ft
- Cayuga Heights850 ft
- Ithaca620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York342nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Tompkins Countyhighest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Beech Hill, Tompkins County1,850 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.