Adams, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m720 ft 220 m660 ft 200 m530 ft 165 m410 ft 125 m340 ft 105 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
Adams sits at about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 190 m
most residents: 540–680 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the northwest side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the east side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside town boundaries
Adams spans about 510 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Adams | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (ART) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi north of the town boundaries | 331 ft101 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Jefferson County, New York, United States
- Population
- 4,893 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 116 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8092° N, 76.0241° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Watertown International (ART) 331 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 13605 13606
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Worth1,320 ft
- Lorraine870 ft
- Rodman850 ft
- Adams Center640 ft
- Village of Adams630 ft
- Adams630 ft
- Pierrepont Manor630 ft
- Mannsville600 ft
- Belleville470 ft
- Ellisburg470 ft
- Village of Ellisburg340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York986th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Jefferson County15th highest of 60
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Underwood Hill, Jefferson County1,140 ft
- Dry Hill, Jefferson County980 ft
- Pine Hill, Jefferson County580 ft
- Prospect Hill, Jefferson County530 ft
- Torrey Hill520 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).
- 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 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.