Groton, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 490 m1,430 ft 435 m1,340 ft 410 m1,170 ft 355 m990 ft 300 m900 ft 275 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Groton sits at about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,250 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,010–1,440 ft
Lowest
900 ft 275 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,320 ft 400 m
all land inside town boundaries
Groton spans about 700 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 | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 900 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Groton | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Airport (ITH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Average of all land | 1,320 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Tompkins County, New York, United States
- Population
- 5,539 2024 est.
- Land area
- 49.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 112 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5878° N, 76.3669° 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 4
- 13045 13068 13073 13102
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summerhill1,510 ft
- Groton1,250 ft
- Cortland West1,230 ft
- Munsons Corners1,180 ft
- McLean1,130 ft
- Dryden1,130 ft
- Locke1,110 ft
- Village of Dryden1,090 ft
- Village of Groton1,040 ft
- Freeville1,040 ft
- South Lansing930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York406th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Tompkins County3rd highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Simms Hill1,610 ft
- Cosmos Hill1,570 ft
- Bean Hill, Tompkins County1,150 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.