Village of Horseheads, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,100 ft 335 m1,060 ft 325 m980 ft 300 m910 ft 275 m870 ft 265 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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- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Village of Horseheads sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 890–970 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the south side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the northwest side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside village limits
Village of Horseheads spans about 310 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Village of Horseheads | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (ELM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi west of the village limits | 955 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Chemung County, New York, United States
- Population
- 6,343 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,629 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1670° N, 76.8205° 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
- 14845
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Catlin1,320 ft
- Breesport1,170 ft
- Veteran1,020 ft
- Horseheads North940 ft
- Horseheads930 ft
- Village of Horseheads920 ft
- Pine Valley910 ft
- Town of Elmira890 ft
- West Elmira890 ft
- Elmira Heights880 ft
- Elmira860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York686th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Chemung County11th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Bowman Hill, Chemung County1,480 ft
- Carr Hill, Chemung County1,420 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).
- 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.