Ulysses, NY Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Ulysses, New York, shaded from 380 ft on the northeast side to 1,340 ft on the south side
Elevation
1,340 ft 410 m1,100 ft 335 m980 ft 300 m740 ft 225 m500 ft 155 m380 ft 115 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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.
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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

Ulysses sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 770–1,130 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the south side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside town boundaries

Ulysses spans about 960 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
980 ft300 m
Highest point
Inside town boundaries, on the south side
1,340 ft410 m
Lowest point
Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side
380 ft115 m
Airport (ITH)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi east of the town boundaries
1,099 ft335 m
Average of all land960 ft290 m

Elevation profile, west to east

8.1 mi west to east through the middle of Ulysses.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Ulysses, New York, shaded from 380 ft on the northeast side to 1,340 ft on the south side
Town boundaries (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 100 ft (30 m).
Location
Town in Tompkins County, New York, United States
Population
4,839 2024 est.
Land area
32.9 sq mi + 4.0 sq mi water
Density
147 per sq mi
Coordinates
42.5184° N, 76.6307° 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 3
14850 14854 14886
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Enfield1,310 ft
  2. Jacksonville1,030 ft
  3. Ulysses980 ft
  4. Trumansburg980 ft
  5. Northwest Ithaca940 ft
  6. South Lansing930 ft
  7. Village of Lansing920 ft
  8. Lansing920 ft
  9. Interlaken880 ft
  10. Covert880 ft
  11. Cayuga Heights850 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Frost Hill2,270 ft
  • Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
  • North Hill, Schuyler County1,740 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 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).
  • 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.