Western, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 490 m1,340 ft 410 m1,210 ft 370 m940 ft 285 m680 ft 205 m550 ft 165 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
Western sits at about 810 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 245 m
most residents: 570–1,230 ft
Lowest
550 ft 165 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside town boundaries
Western spans about 1,050 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 | 810 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 550 ft165 m |
| Airport (RME) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi south of the town boundaries | 504 ft154 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.8 mi south to north through the middle of Western.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Oneida County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,805 2024 est.
- Land area
- 51.2 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 35 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.3205° N, 75.3853° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mohawk River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Griffiss International (RME) 504 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 13303 13309 13354 13440 13486
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ava1,390 ft
- Remsen1,240 ft
- Steuben1,180 ft
- Western810 ft
- Holland Patent650 ft
- Lee610 ft
- Lake Delta590 ft
- Westernville580 ft
- Floyd560 ft
- Stittville550 ft
- Rome470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York806th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Oneida County22nd highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Ridge3,860 ft
- Wakely Mountain3,760 ft
- Little Moose Mountain3,530 ft
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
- West Mountain2,911 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.