New York County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
260 ft 80 m190 ft 60 m160 ft 50 m96 ft 29 m32 ft 10 m0 ft 0 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
New York County averages about 48 ft (15 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Upper New York Bay to 260 ft on Long Hill.
Average elevation
48 ft 15 m
all land inside the county
Highest
260 ft 80 m
on Long Hill
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Upper New York Bay
New York County spans about 260 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 | 48 ft15 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Long Hill | 260 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Upper New York Bay | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.8 mi south to north through the middle of New York County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 1,660,664 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.7 sq mi + 11.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 73,293 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 98%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Bergen County, NJ210 ft
- Bronx County62 ft
- Queens County50 ft
- New York County48 ft
- Hudson County, NJ41 ft
- Kings County36 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New York61st highest of 62
- Counties in the United States3,028th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Long Hill, New York County260 ft
- Inwood Hill230 ft
- Great Hill, New York County130 ft
- Mount Morris, New York County100 ft
The one town in New York County
- New York partly46 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.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 260 ft at 40.8529° N, 73.9382° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- 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, −58 ft at 40.7560° N, 74.0012° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.