Wayland, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,140 ft 650 m1,860 ft 565 m1,720 ft 525 m1,440 ft 440 m1,160 ft 355 m1,020 ft 310 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
Wayland sits at about 1,380 ft (420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,380 ft 420 m
most residents: 1,360–1,800 ft
Lowest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,139 ft 652 m
on Sand Hill
Average
1,610 ft 490 m
all land inside town boundaries
Wayland spans about 1,120 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 | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Sand Hill | 2,139 ft652 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wayland | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Airport (DSV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi west of the town boundaries | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 1,610 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Steuben County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,678 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.7 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 95 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5678° N, 77.5897° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Genesee River
- Airport
- Dansville Municipal (DSV) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 14437 14529 14572 14826
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Springwater1,540 ft
- Wayland1,380 ft
- Websters Crossing1,370 ft
- Village of Wayland1,370 ft
- Cohocton1,340 ft
- Sparta1,330 ft
- Village of Cohocton1,310 ft
- North Dansville710 ft
- Dansville700 ft
- Cumminsville640 ft
- Woodsville620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York284th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Steuben County20th highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Sand Hill, Steuben County2,139 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Hemmer Hill1,850 ft
- Clover Hill, Steuben County1,840 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.