Sherman, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,880 ft 570 m1,770 ft 540 m1,720 ft 525 m1,620 ft 495 m1,520 ft 465 m1,470 ft 450 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
Sherman sits at about 1,580 ft (485 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,580 ft 485 m
most residents: 1,530–1,720 ft
Lowest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,880 ft 570 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,630 ft 500 m
all land inside town boundaries
Sherman spans about 410 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 | 1,580 ft485 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,880 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sherman | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Average of all land | 1,630 ft500 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chautauqua County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,637 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 45 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1592° N, 79.5953° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- French Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 14724 14767 14781
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sherman1,580 ft
- Clymer1,580 ft
- Village of Sherman1,570 ft
- French Creek1,560 ft
- Panama1,560 ft
- Harmony1,560 ft
- Mina1,500 ft
- North Harmony1,480 ft
- Mayville1,390 ft
- Chautauqua1,390 ft
- Ripley760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York133rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Chautauqua Countyhighest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sweet Hill, Chautauqua County1,870 ft
- Jones Hill, Chautauqua County1,550 ft
- Mount Baldy1,370 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, 1,470 ft at 42.1037° N, 79.6443° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.