Penfield, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m540 ft 165 m490 ft 150 m390 ft 120 m300 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
Penfield sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 360–510 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the northwest side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the east side
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside town boundaries
Penfield spans about 390 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Penfield | 420 ft130 m |
| Airport (ROC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.7 mi west of the town boundaries | 559 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Monroe County, New York, United States
- Population
- 38,705 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.2 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,039 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1303° N, 77.4756° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester International (ROC) 559 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 14450 14502 14526 14580 14625
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Perinton510 ft
- Pittsford500 ft
- Village of Pittsford500 ft
- Brighton490 ft
- Fairport490 ft
- Penfield480 ft
- Nazareth College450 ft
- Village of Webster450 ft
- St. John Fisher College440 ft
- East Rochester420 ft
- Webster390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,234th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Monroe County23rd highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Kuttruff Hill650 ft
- Cobbs Hill640 ft
- Jacobs Hill, Wayne County560 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.