Montour Falls, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m850 ft 260 m780 ft 240 m650 ft 200 m510 ft 155 m440 ft 135 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Montour Falls sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 450–710 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northwest side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside village limits
Montour Falls spans about 550 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Montour Falls | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (ELM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi south of the village limits | 955 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
| Nearest peak Connecticut Hill, 8.5 mi east of the village limits | 2,100 ft640 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Schuyler County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,527 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 508 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3473° N, 76.8452° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Seneca River
- Airport
- Elmira/Corning Regional (ELM) 955 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 14865
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Catharine1,160 ft
- Reading1,090 ft
- Odessa1,050 ft
- Dix1,020 ft
- Veteran1,020 ft
- Burdett1,000 ft
- Pine Valley910 ft
- Millport720 ft
- Montour480 ft
- Watkins Glen470 ft
- Montour Falls460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,273rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Schuyler Countylowest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Mount Pleasant, Schuyler County1,850 ft
- Foots Hill1,850 ft
- Watkins Hill1,320 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.