Town of Elmira, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,420 ft 435 m1,320 ft 405 m1,120 ft 340 m920 ft 280 m820 ft 250 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.
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- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
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- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Town of Elmira sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 870–1,220 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,180 ft 360 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Elmira spans about 800 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (ELM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 955 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 1,180 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.2 mi west to east through the middle of Town of Elmira.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chemung County, New York, United States
- Population
- 6,549 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 295 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0916° N, 76.8344° 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 4
- 14861 14901 14903 14905
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Big Flats960 ft
- Horseheads North940 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 York719th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Chemung County13th 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
- Hawes 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).
- 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.