Utica, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m770 ft 235 m700 ft 215 m570 ft 175 m440 ft 135 m370 ft 115 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Utica sits at about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
510 ft 155 m
most residents: 440–550 ft
Lowest
370 ft 115 m
on the east side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the south side
Average
500 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Utica spans about 530 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 370 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Utica | 450 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Oneida County, New York, United States
- Population
- 63,660 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,807 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1009° N, 75.2327° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mohawk River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 13501 13502
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chadwicks740 ft
- Washington Mills680 ft
- New Hartford650 ft
- Deerfield610 ft
- Village of New Hartford570 ft
- Marcy550 ft
- Utica510 ft
- Whitestown500 ft
- New York Mills480 ft
- Yorkville450 ft
- Whitesboro430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,178th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Oneida County45th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Ridge3,860 ft
- Little Moose Mountain3,530 ft
- Hamilton Mountain3,250 ft
- Dug Mountain3,240 ft
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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); BTS time zones. All public domain.