Philadelphia, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m580 ft 175 m550 ft 165 m480 ft 150 m420 ft 130 m390 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
Philadelphia sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 440–510 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the west side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the south side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside town boundaries
Philadelphia spans about 250 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Philadelphia | 490 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Jefferson County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,952 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.7 sq mi
- Density
- 52 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1545° N, 75.7088° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Indian River → Saint Lawrence River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 13673
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Great Bend690 ft
- Deferiet660 ft
- Fort Drum560 ft
- Le Ray540 ft
- Village of Antwerp530 ft
- Antwerp500 ft
- Village of Philadelphia490 ft
- Philadelphia490 ft
- Evans Mills430 ft
- Theresa410 ft
- Village of Theresa400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,207th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Jefferson County27th highest of 60
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wakely Mountain3,760 ft
- Little Moose Mountain3,530 ft
- Mount Morris3,140 ft
- West Mountain2,911 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).
- 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.