Rye, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m320 ft 100 m270 ft 80 m160 ft 50 m54 ft 16 m0 ft 0 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
Rye sits at about 81 ft (25 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
81 ft 25 m
most residents: 33–200 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Playland Lake
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the north side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside town boundaries
Rye 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 | 81 ft25 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Playland Lake | 0 ft0 m |
| Airport (HPN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi north of the town boundaries | 439 ft134 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the middle of Rye.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Westchester County, New York, United States
- Population
- 48,568 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 7,030 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0001° N, 73.6799° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Westchester County (HPN) 439 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 10543 10573
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hartsdale260 ft
- White Plains240 ft
- Scarsdale240 ft
- Rye Brook180 ft
- Harrison170 ft
- Rye81 ft
- Port Chester79 ft
- Mamaroneck45 ft
- Village of Mamaroneck40 ft
- City of Rye37 ft
- Larchmont34 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,895th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Westchester County58th highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Cooney Hill550 ft
- Thealls Hill120 ft
- Budds Hill71 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −5 ft at 40.9418° N, 73.7254° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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. All public domain.