Howard, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,200 ft 670 m1,950 ft 595 m1,830 ft 560 m1,580 ft 485 m1,340 ft 405 m1,210 ft 370 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
Howard sits at about 1,690 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,690 ft 515 m
most residents: 1,580–1,940 ft
Lowest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the south side
Highest
2,200 ft 670 m
on the south side
Average
1,760 ft 535 m
all land inside town boundaries
Howard spans about 990 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 | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 2,200 ft670 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Howard | 1,650 ft500 m |
| Airport (HTF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi west of the town boundaries | 1,219 ft372 m |
| Average of all land | 1,760 ft535 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Steuben County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,352 2024 est.
- Land area
- 60.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3642° N, 77.5089° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cohocton River → Chemung River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hornell Municipal (HTF) 1,219 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 14809 14810 14823 14843
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Howard1,690 ft
- Fremont, Steuben County1,680 ft
- Cohocton1,340 ft
- Village of Cohocton1,310 ft
- Avoca1,230 ft
- Hornellsville1,200 ft
- Village of Avoca1,200 ft
- North Hornell1,160 ft
- Hornell1,160 ft
- Canisteo1,140 ft
- Village of Canisteo1,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York87th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Steuben County6th highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Burt Hill, Steuben County2,130 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Bullard Hill1,840 ft
- Annabel Hill1,780 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.