Madison County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,140 ft 650 m1,700 ft 515 m1,480 ft 450 m1,030 ft 315 m590 ft 180 m370 ft 110 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Madison County averages about 1,240 ft (375 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 370 ft on the northwest side to 2,140 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,240 ft 375 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,140 ft 650 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
370 ft 110 m
on the northwest side
Madison County spans about 1,770 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 2,140 ft650 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
30 mi south to north through Sullivan.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 67,072 2024 est.
- Land area
- 654.9 sq mi + 6.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 102 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus 91%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 50%, Great Lakes 50%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Otsego County1,560 ft
- Cortland County1,480 ft
- Chenango County1,450 ft
- Madison County1,240 ft
- Oneida County920 ft
- Onondaga County800 ft
- Oswego County580 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New York24th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States1,066th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Muller Hill2,030 ft
- Hunt Hill, Madison County2,010 ft
- South Hill, Madison County1,980 ft
- Dunhams Pinnacle1,960 ft
- Kinney Hill1,950 ft
All 27 towns in Madison County by typical elevation
- Georgetown1,790 ft
- Nelson1,610 ft
- Brookfield1,540 ft
- Lebanon1,410 ft
- Fenner1,390 ft
- DeRuyter1,320 ft
- Smithfield1,320 ft
- Eaton1,320 ft
- Morrisville1,320 ft
- Village of DeRuyter1,290 ft
- Cazenovia1,250 ft
- Village of Cazenovia1,240 ft
- Madison1,230 ft
- Village of Madison1,210 ft
- Hamilton1,130 ft
- Village of Hamilton1,120 ft
- Earlville1,090 ft
- Stockbridge840 ft
- Lincoln750 ft
- Munnsville680 ft
- Chittenango520 ft
- Wampsville460 ft
- Oneida440 ft
- Canastota420 ft
- Lenox420 ft
- Sullivan420 ft
- Bridgeport partly390 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.