Hornby, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,050 ft 625 m1,790 ft 545 m1,660 ft 505 m1,410 ft 430 m1,160 ft 350 m1,030 ft 315 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
Hornby sits at about 1,630 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,630 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,150–1,800 ft
Lowest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the south side
Highest
2,050 ft 625 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,630 ft 495 m
all land inside town boundaries
Hornby spans about 1,020 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 | 1,630 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hornby | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Airport (ELM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 955 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 1,630 ft495 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Steuben County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,745 2024 est.
- Land area
- 40.9 sq mi
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2442° N, 77.0441° 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
- 14812 14830 14870
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hornby1,630 ft
- Orange1,460 ft
- Catlin1,320 ft
- Town of Corning1,070 ft
- Campbell1,060 ft
- Coopers Plains970 ft
- Erwin950 ft
- Gang Mills940 ft
- Painted Post940 ft
- Village of Riverside940 ft
- Corning940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York104th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Steuben County9th highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Quackenbush Hill, Steuben County1,903 ft
- Townley Hill1,880 ft
- Pine Hill, Steuben County1,790 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.