Dayton, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,680 ft 510 m1,490 ft 455 m1,400 ft 430 m1,220 ft 370 m1,040 ft 315 m950 ft 290 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
Dayton sits at about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,290–1,450 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,680 ft 510 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,350 ft 415 m
all land inside town boundaries
Dayton spans about 730 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 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dayton | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Average of all land | 1,350 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,638 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4170° N, 78.9770° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Conewango Creek → Conewago Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 5
- 14041 14070 14129 14138 14719
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Albion1,520 ft
- Leon1,490 ft
- Villenova1,470 ft
- Otto1,440 ft
- Cattaraugus1,360 ft
- Dayton1,320 ft
- South Dayton1,300 ft
- Perrysburg1,110 ft
- Collins890 ft
- Persia780 ft
- Gowanda770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York352nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Cattaraugus County45th highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tug Hill, Cattaraugus County2,070 ft
- South Hill, Chautauqua County1,950 ft
- Round Top Hill1,670 ft
- Pope Hill1,660 ft
- Aldrich Hill1,610 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, 950 ft at 42.4315° N, 78.9440° 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. All public domain.