Yates County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,140 ft 650 m1,720 ft 525 m1,500 ft 460 m1,080 ft 330 m660 ft 200 m440 ft 135 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
Yates County averages about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 440 ft on the northeast side to 2,140 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,140 ft 650 m
on the west side
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northeast side
Yates County spans about 1,700 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,140 ft650 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 440 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Milo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 24,387 2024 est.
- Land area
- 338.2 sq mi + 37.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 72 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Great Lakes 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Steuben County1,620 ft
- Schuyler County1,350 ft
- Yates County1,120 ft
- Ontario County930 ft
- Seneca County670 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New York27th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States1,226th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- West Italy Hill2,060 ft
- South Hill, Yates County1,920 ft
- Barrington Hill1,690 ft
- East Hill, Yates County1,610 ft
- Bare Hill, Yates County1,540 ft
All 14 towns in Yates County by typical elevation
- Italy1,490 ft
- Barrington1,350 ft
- Middlesex1,060 ft
- Potter1,030 ft
- Dundee990 ft
- Starkey990 ft
- Jerusalem950 ft
- Rushville910 ft
- Benton910 ft
- Milo770 ft
- Penn Yan770 ft
- Keuka Park760 ft
- Torrey590 ft
- Village of Dresden500 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.
- 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.