Dayton, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 320 m960 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m830 ft 255 m750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dayton sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 750–950 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,040 ft 320 m
on the southwest side
Average
830 ft 255 m
all land inside city limits
Dayton spans about 330 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dayton | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (DAY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,009 ft308 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 136,346 2024 est.
- Land area
- 55.8 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,444 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7589° N, 84.1916° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Great Miami River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- James M Cox Dayton International (DAY) 1,009 ft
- ZIP codes 18
- 45377 45402 45403 45404 45405 45406 45409 45410 45414 45417 45419 45420 45423 45424 45426 45428 45432 45469
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Drexel970 ft
- Kettering970 ft
- Oakwood960 ft
- Fort McKinley960 ft
- Jefferson Township, Montgomery County880 ft
- Harrison Township850 ft
- Shiloh850 ft
- Dayton830 ft
- Riverside820 ft
- West Carrollton800 ft
- Moraine740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio1,662nd highest of 2,572
- Towns in Montgomery County26th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Shawnee Indian Mound1,020 ft
- Reeds Hill, Greene County980 ft
- Little Mount970 ft
- Miamisburg Mound950 ft
- Stoddard Hill790 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).
- 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.