Elmira, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,380 ft 420 m1,240 ft 380 m1,170 ft 360 m1,040 ft 315 m900 ft 275 m830 ft 255 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Elmira sits at about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 265 m
most residents: 850–900 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the east side
Highest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Elmira spans about 550 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 | 860 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elmira | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (ELM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi northwest of the city limits | 955 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Chemung County, New York, United States
- Population
- 26,255 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,622 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0898° N, 76.8077° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Chemung River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Elmira/Corning Regional (ELM) 955 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 14901 14904 14905
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Baldwin1,340 ft
- Breesport1,170 ft
- Horseheads930 ft
- Village of Horseheads920 ft
- Town of Elmira890 ft
- West Elmira890 ft
- Elmira Heights880 ft
- Southport870 ft
- Ashland870 ft
- Elmira860 ft
- Wellsburg840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York749th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Chemung County18th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Hawley Hill1,710 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.