Sanborn, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 200 m650 ft 195 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 185 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sanborn sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 620–640 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the southeast side
Highest
660 ft 200 m
on the north side
Average
630 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sanborn spans about 60 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 660 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sanborn | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (IAG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 592 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 630 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Niagara County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,553 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 590 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1367° N, 78.8848° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Niagara Falls International (IAG) 592 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 14132
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sanborn640 ft
- Niagara600 ft
- Cambria600 ft
- Niagara University600 ft
- Pendleton590 ft
- Wheatfield580 ft
- City of Tonawanda580 ft
- North Tonawanda580 ft
- Lewiston360 ft
- Village of Lewiston350 ft
- Ransomville320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York974th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Niagara Countyhighest of 27
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Sanborn is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.