Sterling, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m950 ft 290 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sterling sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 960–970 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the southeast side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the northwest side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sterling spans about 30 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sterling | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (3G3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 974 ft297 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wayne County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 432 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 443 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9676° N, 81.8485° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tuscarawas River → Muskingum River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Wadsworth Municipal (3G3) 974 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 44276
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Guilford Township1,160 ft
- Wadsworth Township1,130 ft
- Westfield Center1,090 ft
- Rittman1,060 ft
- Westfield Township1,030 ft
- Canaan Township1,010 ft
- Gloria Glens Park1,010 ft
- Seville1,000 ft
- Milton Township, Wayne County990 ft
- Creston980 ft
- Sterling970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio974th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Wayne County32nd highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Acme Hill1,220 ft
- Reeds Hill, Medina County1,150 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Sterling is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.