Potter, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,520 ft 465 m1,350 ft 410 m1,260 ft 385 m1,090 ft 330 m910 ft 280 m830 ft 250 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
Potter sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 890–1,200 ft
Lowest
830 ft 250 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,520 ft 465 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,060 ft 320 m
all land inside town boundaries
Potter spans about 690 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 830 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Potter | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (PEO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 988 ft301 m |
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Yates County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,827 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.2 sq mi
- Density
- 49 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7042° N, 77.2066° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Seneca River
- Airport
- Penn Yan/Yates County (PEO) 988 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 14507 14527 14544 14561
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Italy1,490 ft
- Middlesex1,060 ft
- Potter1,030 ft
- Jerusalem950 ft
- Rushville910 ft
- Benton910 ft
- Gorham900 ft
- Milo770 ft
- Crystal Beach770 ft
- Penn Yan770 ft
- Keuka Park760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York591st highest of 2,097
- Towns in Yates County4th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- East Hill, Yates County1,610 ft
- Harkness Hill1,170 ft
- Lazarus Hill1,090 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.