Gainesville, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,840 ft 560 m1,670 ft 510 m1,580 ft 480 m1,410 ft 430 m1,230 ft 375 m1,150 ft 350 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
Gainesville sits at about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,480 ft 450 m
most residents: 1,380–1,650 ft
Lowest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the north side
Highest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the west side
Average
1,600 ft 490 m
all land inside town boundaries
Gainesville spans about 690 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 | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gainesville | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Airport (01G) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 1,558 ft475 m |
| Average of all land | 1,600 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Wyoming County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,985 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 56 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6409° N, 78.1339° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Genesee River
- Airport
- Perry-Warsaw (01G) 1,558 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 14066 14427 14550 14569
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bliss1,910 ft
- Wethersfield1,830 ft
- Village of Gainesville1,620 ft
- Pike1,600 ft
- Gainesville1,480 ft
- Silver Springs1,400 ft
- Castile1,380 ft
- Village of Castile1,370 ft
- Genesee Falls1,320 ft
- Warsaw1,040 ft
- Village of Warsaw1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York215th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Wyoming County10th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Oak Hill, Wyoming County1,700 ft
- Cobble Hill, Wyoming County1,690 ft
- Jenkins Hill1,650 ft
- Wheelers Hill1,590 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.