Ward, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,340 ft 715 m2,160 ft 660 m2,080 ft 635 m1,900 ft 580 m1,720 ft 525 m1,630 ft 495 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ward sits at about 2,100 ft (640 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,100 ft 640 m
most residents: 1,880–2,210 ft
Lowest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,340 ft 715 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,050 ft 625 m
all land inside town boundaries
Ward spans about 710 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 | 2,100 ft640 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Airport (ELZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 2,125 ft648 m |
| Average of all land | 2,050 ft625 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the middle of Ward.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Allegany County, New York, United States
- Population
- 330 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.2 sq mi
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2250° N, 77.9018° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Genesee River
- Airport
- Wellsville Municipal/Tarantine Field (ELZ) 2,125 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 14803 14806 14813 14880
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ward2,100 ft
- West Almond2,020 ft
- Village of Alfred1,840 ft
- Alfred1,840 ft
- Andover1,740 ft
- Village of Andover1,670 ft
- Scio1,590 ft
- Wellsville1,520 ft
- Village of Wellsville1,510 ft
- Amity1,410 ft
- Belmont1,380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York6th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Allegany Countyhighest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bliven Hill2,300 ft
- Oak Hill, Allegany County2,280 ft
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Round Top, Allegany County2,090 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.