Darien, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 385 m1,160 ft 355 m1,100 ft 335 m990 ft 305 m880 ft 270 m830 ft 255 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
Darien sits at about 960 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 290 m
most residents: 860–1,110 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the west side
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the southeast side
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside town boundaries
Darien spans about 440 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 | 960 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Darien | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Genesee County, New York, United States
- Population
- 2,978 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 63 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9020° N, 78.3503° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- ZIP codes 4
- 14004 14005 14036 14040
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bennington1,220 ft
- Attica1,040 ft
- Village of Attica990 ft
- Village of Alexander970 ft
- Alexander970 ft
- Darien960 ft
- Town of Batavia890 ft
- Village of Alden860 ft
- Pembroke860 ft
- Corfu860 ft
- Alden820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York652nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Genesee County5th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Chestnut Knoll1,660 ft
- Orr Hill, Wyoming County1,630 ft
- Merchants Hill1,610 ft
- Poland Hill1,530 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 830 ft at 42.9243° N, 78.4632° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.