Worcester, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,420 ft 735 m2,130 ft 650 m1,980 ft 605 m1,690 ft 515 m1,400 ft 430 m1,260 ft 385 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
Worcester sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,510 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,330–2,140 ft
Lowest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,420 ft 735 m
on the east side
Average
1,830 ft 560 m
all land inside town boundaries
Worcester spans about 1,160 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 | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 2,420 ft735 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Worcester | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Average of all land | 1,830 ft560 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Otsego County, New York, United States
- Population
- 2,061 2024 est.
- Land area
- 46.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5915° N, 74.7504° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 4
- 12036 12064 12149 12197
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summit2,050 ft
- Decatur2,010 ft
- Westford1,780 ft
- Worcester1,510 ft
- East Worcester1,510 ft
- Middlefield1,450 ft
- Davenport1,370 ft
- Maryland1,360 ft
- Schenevus1,280 ft
- Milford1,230 ft
- Village of Milford1,210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York183rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Otsego County6th highest of 48
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- West Kill Mountain3,890 ft
- North Dome3,608 ft
- Bearpen Mountain3,590 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 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).
- 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, 1,260 ft at 42.5696° N, 74.7710° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.