Marcellus, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 400 m1,090 ft 335 m990 ft 300 m780 ft 235 m570 ft 175 m460 ft 140 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
Marcellus sits at about 800 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 240 m
most residents: 660–1,100 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the north side
Highest
1,300 ft 400 m
on the south side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside town boundaries
Marcellus spans about 840 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 | 800 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,300 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Marcellus | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (SYR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 421 ft128 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Onondaga County, New York, United States
- Population
- 6,003 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 185 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9828° N, 76.3405° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Airport
- Syracuse Hancock International (SYR) 421 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 13108 13110 13152
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Skaneateles920 ft
- Village of Skaneateles900 ft
- Onondaga870 ft
- Marcellus800 ft
- Village of Marcellus670 ft
- Camillus550 ft
- Village of Elbridge550 ft
- Fairmount540 ft
- Elbridge520 ft
- Westvale520 ft
- Village of Camillus430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York815th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Onondaga County12th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Howlet Hill1,133 ft
- Baker Hill, Onondaga County1,080 ft
- Bishop Hill860 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).
- 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, 460 ft at 43.0121° N, 76.3354° 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 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.