Elmira Heights, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,200 ft 365 m1,140 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m910 ft 280 m860 ft 260 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Elmira Heights sits at about 880 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 265 m
most residents: 870–940 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the southwest side
Average
910 ft 275 m
all land inside village limits
Elmira Heights spans about 450 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 | 880 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elmira Heights | 880 ft265 m |
| Airport (ELM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi northwest of the village limits | 955 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Chemung County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,764 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3,284 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1298° N, 76.8208° 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 1
- 14903
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Breesport1,170 ft
- Big Flats960 ft
- Horseheads North940 ft
- Horseheads930 ft
- Village of Horseheads920 ft
- Pine Valley910 ft
- Town of Elmira890 ft
- West Elmira890 ft
- Elmira Heights880 ft
- Southport870 ft
- Elmira860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York737th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Chemung County15th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Hawley Hill1,710 ft
- Hawes Hill1,610 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village limits (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, 860 ft at 42.1235° N, 76.8124° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.