Owasco, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,020 ft 310 m970 ft 295 m860 ft 260 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 210 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
Owasco sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 730–910 ft
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the north side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside town boundaries
Owasco spans about 430 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 700 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Owasco | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (6B9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi north of the town boundaries | 1,039 ft317 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Cayuga County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,469 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.9 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 166 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8551° N, 76.4652° 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 1
- 13021
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Niles1,190 ft
- Venice1,150 ft
- Scipio1,050 ft
- Moravia1,010 ft
- Skaneateles920 ft
- Village of Skaneateles900 ft
- Owasco770 ft
- Melrose Park770 ft
- Fleming760 ft
- Auburn710 ft
- Throop550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York827th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Cayuga County10th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Cottle Hill990 ft
- Preston Hill, Onondaga County920 ft
- Bishop Hill860 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.