Niles, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,730 ft 525 m1,470 ft 450 m1,350 ft 410 m1,090 ft 335 m840 ft 255 m710 ft 215 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
Niles sits at about 1,190 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,190 ft 365 m
most residents: 920–1,530 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,730 ft 525 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside town boundaries
Niles spans about 1,020 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 | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,730 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Niles | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (6B9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi north of the town boundaries | 1,039 ft317 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Cayuga County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,128 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.0 sq mi + 4.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8376° N, 76.4135° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Seneca River
- Airport
- Skaneateles Aero Drome (6B9) 1,039 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 13021 13077 13118 13152
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sempronius1,610 ft
- Niles1,190 ft
- Spafford1,160 ft
- Scipio1,050 ft
- Moravia1,010 ft
- Skaneateles920 ft
- Village of Skaneateles900 ft
- Owasco770 ft
- Melrose Park770 ft
- Fleming760 ft
- Village of Moravia740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York458th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Cayuga County3rd highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Ripley Hill1,980 ft
- Gifford Hill, Onondaga County1,890 ft
- Oak Hill, Cayuga County1,340 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).
- 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.