Sparta, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,060 ft 630 m1,690 ft 515 m1,500 ft 460 m1,130 ft 345 m760 ft 230 m570 ft 175 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
Sparta sits at about 1,330 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,330 ft 405 m
most residents: 810–1,860 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,060 ft 630 m
on the east side
Average
1,310 ft 400 m
all land inside town boundaries
Sparta spans about 1,490 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 | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (DSV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.7 mi south of the town boundaries | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 1,310 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the middle of Sparta.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Livingston County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,567 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.8 sq mi
- Density
- 56 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6291° N, 77.6991° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Genesee River
- Airport
- Dansville Municipal (DSV) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 14435 14437 14545
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Websters Crossing1,370 ft
- Sparta1,330 ft
- West Sparta1,050 ft
- Scottsburg930 ft
- Groveland760 ft
- North Dansville710 ft
- Dansville700 ft
- Kysorville660 ft
- Cumminsville640 ft
- Woodsville620 ft
- Groveland Station610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York334th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Livingston County7th highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Strong Hill1,880 ft
- East Hill, Livingston County1,680 ft
- Logan Hill1,420 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, 570 ft at 42.6543° N, 77.7610° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.