LaFayette, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,710 ft 520 m1,400 ft 425 m1,250 ft 380 m940 ft 285 m630 ft 195 m480 ft 145 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
LaFayette sits at about 1,090 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,090 ft 335 m
most residents: 690–1,370 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the west side
Highest
1,710 ft 520 m
on the south side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside town boundaries
LaFayette spans about 1,230 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 | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for LaFayette | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Airport (SYR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.9 mi north of the town boundaries | 421 ft128 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Onondaga County, New York, United States
- Population
- 4,869 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.3 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 124 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8923° N, 76.1052° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Airport
- Syracuse Hancock International (SYR) 421 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 13078 13084 13159
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Otisco1,330 ft
- Fabius1,290 ft
- Village of Fabius1,270 ft
- Village of Tully1,240 ft
- Tully1,240 ft
- LaFayette1,090 ft
- Pompey1,020 ft
- Onondaga870 ft
- Village of Manlius600 ft
- Manlius530 ft
- Nedrow430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York543rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Onondaga County7th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Mason Hill, Onondaga County1,530 ft
- Irish Hill, Onondaga County1,500 ft
- Miller Hill, Onondaga County1,420 ft
- Torry Hill1,220 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.