Medford, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
160 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m81 ft 25 m49 ft 15 m32 ft 10 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Medford sits at about 92 ft (28 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
92 ft 28 m
most residents: 68–130 ft
Lowest
32 ft 10 m
on the south side
Highest
160 ft 50 m
on the northeast side
Average
97 ft 30 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Medford spans about 128 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 | 92 ft28 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 160 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 32 ft10 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Medford | 87 ft26 m |
| Airport (ISP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi west of the CDP boundary | 99 ft30 m |
| Average of all land | 97 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York, United States
- Population
- 24,247 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,245 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8176° N, 73.0001° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Long Island Mac Arthur (ISP) 99 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 11738 11763
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Farmingville160 ft
- Gordon Heights140 ft
- Coram120 ft
- Selden110 ft
- Holtsville94 ft
- Medford92 ft
- Holbrook78 ft
- North Bellport53 ft
- North Patchogue43 ft
- East Patchogue28 ft
- Patchogue16 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,877th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Suffolk County47th highest of 162
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Hill, Suffolk County294 ft
- Rock Hill, Suffolk County260 ft
- Mount Misery, Suffolk County180 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Medford is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.