Phelps, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m750 ft 230 m690 ft 210 m580 ft 175 m460 ft 140 m400 ft 120 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
Phelps sits at about 550 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 165 m
most residents: 470–650 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the northeast side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the southwest side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside town boundaries
Phelps spans about 470 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 | 550 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Phelps | 520 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ontario County, New York, United States
- Population
- 6,589 2024 est.
- Land area
- 64.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 101 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9576° N, 77.0575° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Seneca River
- ZIP codes 5
- 14432 14456 14489 14513 14532
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shortsville620 ft
- Clifton Springs600 ft
- Town of Geneva560 ft
- Phelps550 ft
- Village of Phelps540 ft
- Geneva510 ft
- Junius490 ft
- Port Gibson490 ft
- Arcadia470 ft
- Newark460 ft
- Lyons430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,118th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ontario County26th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Jackson Hill, Wayne County660 ft
- Silver Hill, Wayne County580 ft
- Bailey Hill, Wayne County570 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.