Madison, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,840 ft 560 m1,620 ft 495 m1,510 ft 460 m1,290 ft 395 m1,070 ft 325 m960 ft 295 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
Madison sits at about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,230 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,140–1,540 ft
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,380 ft 420 m
all land inside town boundaries
Madison spans about 880 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 | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 960 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Madison | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Airport (VGC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.0 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 1,137 ft347 m |
| Average of all land | 1,380 ft420 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Madison County, New York, United States
- Population
- 2,717 2024 est.
- Land area
- 40.8 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 67 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8990° N, 75.5121° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mohawk River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hamilton Municipal (VGC) 1,137 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 13310 13346 13355 13402 13425 13480
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eaton1,320 ft
- Morrisville1,320 ft
- Sangerfield1,240 ft
- Madison1,230 ft
- Waterville1,220 ft
- Village of Madison1,210 ft
- Hamilton1,130 ft
- Village of Hamilton1,120 ft
- Augusta1,100 ft
- Oriskany Falls1,020 ft
- Munnsville680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York431st highest of 2,097
- Towns in Madison County13th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
- Bonney Hill1,770 ft
- Cole Hill, Madison County1,680 ft
- Crow Hill, Madison County1,680 ft
- Bacon Hill1,640 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. All public domain.