Dryden, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,020 ft 615 m1,690 ft 515 m1,530 ft 470 m1,210 ft 370 m890 ft 270 m730 ft 225 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
Dryden sits at about 1,130 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,130 ft 345 m
most residents: 1,030–1,490 ft
Lowest
730 ft 225 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,020 ft 615 m
on the south side
Average
1,290 ft 395 m
all land inside town boundaries
Dryden spans about 1,290 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 | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 730 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dryden | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Airport (ITH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi west of the town boundaries | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Average of all land | 1,290 ft395 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Tompkins County, New York, United States
- Population
- 13,467 2024 est.
- Land area
- 93.6 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 144 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4909° N, 76.2972° 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 6
- 13045 13053 13062 13068 13073 14850
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Virgil1,520 ft
- Harford1,360 ft
- Groton1,250 ft
- Munsons Corners1,180 ft
- McLean1,130 ft
- Dryden1,130 ft
- Slaterville Springs1,120 ft
- Village of Dryden1,090 ft
- Village of Groton1,040 ft
- Freeville1,040 ft
- Varna960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York513th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Tompkins County7th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Hammond Hill, Tompkins County1,980 ft
- Beam Hill, Tompkins County1,950 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.