South Lansing, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m960 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m790 ft 240 m680 ft 210 m630 ft 190 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
South Lansing sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 830–1,020 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the south side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the east side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Lansing spans about 440 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 630 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Lansing | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (ITH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Tompkins County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,078 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Density
- 390 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5378° N, 76.5058° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Seneca River
- Airport
- Ithaca Tompkins International (ITH) 1,099 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 14882
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jacksonville1,030 ft
- Northeast Ithaca990 ft
- Ulysses980 ft
- Varna960 ft
- Northwest Ithaca940 ft
- South Lansing930 ft
- Forest Home920 ft
- Village of Lansing920 ft
- Lansing920 ft
- Cayuga Heights850 ft
- Ithaca620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York674th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Tompkins County18th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Turkey Hill, Tompkins County1,470 ft
- Bean Hill, Tompkins County1,150 ft
- Comstock Knoll980 ft
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.
- South Lansing 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.