Westchester County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m740 ft 225 m610 ft 185 m370 ft 110 m120 ft 35 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Westchester County averages about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Playland Lake to 980 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
360 ft 110 m
all land inside the county
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Playland Lake
Westchester County spans about 980 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Playland Lake | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
29 mi south to north through Yonkers.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 1,006,447 2024 est.
- Land area
- 430.8 sq mi + 69.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,336 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 63%, Long Island Sound 38%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Putnam County660 ft
- Rockland County460 ft
- Fairfield County, CT380 ft
- Westchester County360 ft
- Bergen County, NJ210 ft
- Nassau County89 ft
- Bronx County62 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New York55th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States2,533rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- East Long Pond Mountain970 ft
- Titicus Mountain940 ft
- Long Pond Mountain, Westchester County870 ft
- Mine Mountain860 ft
- Turkey Mountain, Westchester County829 ft
All 70 towns in Westchester County by typical elevation
- Peach Lake partly550 ft
- Lewisboro550 ft
- Jefferson Valley-Yorktown540 ft
- Shenorock520 ft
- Pound Ridge520 ft
- Yorktown510 ft
- North Castle500 ft
- Scotts Corners490 ft
- Heritage Hills490 ft
- North Salem490 ft
- Somers480 ft
- Lake Mohegan480 ft
- Lincolndale480 ft
- Armonk470 ft
- Yorktown Heights450 ft
- New Castle440 ft
- Shrub Oak430 ft
- Chappaqua420 ft
- Crompond400 ft
- Bedford370 ft
- Briarcliff Manor370 ft
- Valhalla360 ft
- Thornwood350 ft
- Mount Kisco340 ft
- Mount Pleasant340 ft
- Hawthorne340 ft
- Bedford Hills340 ft
- Pleasantville340 ft
- Millwood330 ft
- Golden's Bridge300 ft
- Greenville300 ft
- Katonah290 ft
- Ardsley290 ft
- Irvington270 ft
- Greenburgh270 ft
- Hartsdale260 ft
- Ossining250 ft
- Elmsford250 ft
- White Plains240 ft
- Scarsdale240 ft
- Cortlandt230 ft
- Dobbs Ferry230 ft
- Fairview, Westchester County210 ft
- Peekskill190 ft
- Village of Ossining190 ft
- Rye Brook180 ft
- Eastchester180 ft
- Hastings-on-Hudson180 ft
- Harrison170 ft
- Yonkers170 ft
- Tarrytown160 ft
- Tuckahoe140 ft
- Croton-on-Hudson140 ft
- Bronxville130 ft
- Mount Vernon130 ft
- Crugers120 ft
- Montrose100 ft
- New Rochelle82 ft
- Rye81 ft
- Port Chester79 ft
- Buchanan63 ft
- Sleepy Hollow63 ft
- Verplanck61 ft
- Pelham Manor52 ft
- Pelham52 ft
- Village of Pelham51 ft
- Mamaroneck45 ft
- Village of Mamaroneck40 ft
- City of Rye37 ft
- Larchmont34 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, −11 ft at 40.9218° N, 73.9082° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.