Jamestown, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,530 ft 465 m1,490 ft 455 m1,400 ft 425 m1,310 ft 400 m1,260 ft 385 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jamestown sits at about 1,430 ft (435 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,430 ft 435 m
most residents: 1,340–1,520 ft
Lowest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the east side
Average
1,420 ft 430 m
all land inside city limits
Jamestown spans about 360 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 | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jamestown | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Airport (JHW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi north of the city limits | 1,723 ft525 m |
| Average of all land | 1,420 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Chautauqua County, New York, United States
- Population
- 27,699 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,112 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0970° N, 79.2353° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Conewago Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chautauqua County/Jamestown (JHW) 1,723 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 14701
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York255th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Chautauqua County15th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Hill, Cattaraugus County2,135 ft
- Arab Hill, Chautauqua County2,100 ft
- Pickup Hill2,070 ft
- Harris Hill, Chautauqua County1,670 ft
- Jones Hill, Chautauqua County1,550 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,260 ft at 42.1129° N, 79.2082° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.