Norfolk, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m370 ft 110 m340 ft 100 m270 ft 80 m200 ft 60 m170 ft 50 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Norfolk sits at about 270 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 80 m
most residents: 230–330 ft
Lowest
170 ft 50 m
on the northeast side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the south side
Average
270 ft 85 m
all land inside town boundaries
Norfolk spans about 260 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 | 270 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 170 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Norfolk | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (MSS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 222 ft68 m |
| Average of all land | 270 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States
- Population
- 4,348 2024 est.
- Land area
- 56.7 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 77 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8009° N, 74.9910° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Saint Lawrence River → Canada
- Airport
- Massena International-Richards Field (MSS) 222 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 13613 13621 13662 13667 13668 13678
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Village of Potsdam440 ft
- Potsdam430 ft
- Stockholm360 ft
- Norwood330 ft
- Winthrop330 ft
- Brasher Falls310 ft
- Madrid300 ft
- Norfolk270 ft
- Louisville240 ft
- Village of Massena230 ft
- Massena220 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,611th highest of 2,097
- Towns in St. Lawrence County45th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Loon Lake Mountains3,328 ft
- Debar Mountain3,270 ft
- Saint Regis Mountain2,870 ft
- Ragged Lake Mountain2,740 ft
- Mount Matumbla2,690 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, 58 ft at 44.7815° N, 74.9915° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.