Orleans, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m420 ft 130 m390 ft 120 m330 ft 100 m270 ft 85 m240 ft 75 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
Orleans sits at about 370 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 115 m
most residents: 270–420 ft
Lowest
240 ft 75 m
on the north side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
near the middle
Average
370 ft 110 m
all land inside town boundaries
Orleans spans about 240 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 | 370 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 240 ft75 m |
| Airport (ART) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.0 mi south of the town boundaries | 331 ft101 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the middle of Orleans.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Jefferson County, New York, United States
- Population
- 2,764 2024 est.
- Land area
- 71.3 sq mi + 6.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2024° N, 75.9633° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Watertown International (ART) 331 ft
- ZIP codes 8
- 13601 13607 13624 13640 13641 13656 13691 13692
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Theresa410 ft
- Village of Theresa400 ft
- Plessis390 ft
- La Fargeville390 ft
- Depauville380 ft
- Orleans370 ft
- Clayton320 ft
- Alexandria300 ft
- Thousand Island Park270 ft
- Village of Clayton270 ft
- Fishers Landing260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,437th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Jefferson County39th highest of 60
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- West Mountain2,911 ft
- Fox Hill, Jefferson County470 ft
- Slaughter Hill440 ft
- Dog Hill, Jefferson County400 ft
- McCarn Hill380 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 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.