White Plains, NY Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
530 ft 160 m410 ft 125 m350 ft 105 m230 ft 70 m110 ft 35 m52 ft 16 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
White Plains sits at about 240 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
240 ft 75 m
most residents: 200–300 ft
Lowest
52 ft 16 m
on the south side
Highest
530 ft 160 m
on Kennelwood Hill
Average
240 ft 75 m
all land inside city limits
White Plains spans about 478 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 | 240 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Kennelwood Hill | 530 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 52 ft16 m |
| Town center USGS map point for White Plains | 220 ft65 m |
| Airport (HPN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi northeast of the city limits | 439 ft134 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Westchester County, New York, United States
- Population
- 62,561 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 6,425 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0340° N, 73.7629° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Westchester County (HPN) 439 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 10601 10603 10604 10605 10606
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Valhalla360 ft
- Mount Pleasant340 ft
- Greenville300 ft
- Ardsley290 ft
- Greenburgh270 ft
- Hartsdale260 ft
- Elmsford250 ft
- White Plains240 ft
- Scarsdale240 ft
- Fairview, Westchester County210 ft
- Rye Brook180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,635th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Westchester County38th highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Kennelwood Hill530 ft
- Fisher Hill, Westchester County410 ft
- Chatterton Hill340 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).
- 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, 51 ft at 40.9835° N, 73.7451° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.