Town of Ithaca, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 430 m1,160 ft 355 m1,030 ft 315 m770 ft 235 m510 ft 155 m380 ft 115 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
Town of Ithaca sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 770–1,110 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,420 ft 430 m
on the south side
Average
910 ft 280 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Ithaca spans about 1,040 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (ITH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi north of the town boundaries | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the middle of Town of Ithaca.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Tompkins County, New York, United States
- Population
- 21,214 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.9 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 733 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4386° N, 76.4739° 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 1
- 14850
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Northeast Ithaca990 ft
- Varna960 ft
- Northwest Ithaca940 ft
- Town of Ithaca930 ft
- South Hill930 ft
- Forest Home920 ft
- Village of Lansing920 ft
- Lansing920 ft
- East Ithaca880 ft
- Cayuga Heights850 ft
- Ithaca620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York678th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Tompkins County19th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Turkey Hill, Tompkins County1,470 ft
- Hungerford Hill1,280 ft
- Comstock Knoll980 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.