Nelson, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,080 ft 635 m1,910 ft 580 m1,820 ft 555 m1,640 ft 500 m1,460 ft 445 m1,380 ft 420 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
Nelson sits at about 1,610 ft (490 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,610 ft 490 m
most residents: 1,420–1,870 ft
Lowest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,080 ft 635 m
on the south side
Average
1,650 ft 500 m
all land inside town boundaries
Nelson spans about 700 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 | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 2,080 ft635 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nelson | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft500 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Madison County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,875 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.1 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9173° N, 75.7769° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Chittenango Creek
- ZIP codes 5
- 13035 13061 13122 13334 13408
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Nelson1,610 ft
- Fenner1,390 ft
- Smithfield1,320 ft
- Eaton1,320 ft
- Morrisville1,320 ft
- Cazenovia1,250 ft
- Village of Cazenovia1,240 ft
- Stockbridge840 ft
- Lincoln750 ft
- Chittenango520 ft
- Sullivan420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York111th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Madison County2nd highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Tinselor Hill1,930 ft
- Jackass Hill1,910 ft
- Mutton Hill, Madison County1,859 ft
- Stone Quarry Hill, Madison County1,610 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, 1,370 ft at 42.8893° N, 75.8132° 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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.