Town of Amsterdam, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 250 m670 ft 205 m600 ft 180 m450 ft 140 m310 ft 95 m240 ft 75 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
Town of Amsterdam sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 410–750 ft
Lowest
240 ft 75 m
on the southeast side
Highest
810 ft 250 m
on the east side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Amsterdam spans about 570 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 810 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 240 ft75 m |
| Airport (NY0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi west of the town boundaries | 881 ft269 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.2 mi south to north through the middle of Town of Amsterdam.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Montgomery County, New York, United States
- Population
- 5,615 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.6 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 189 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9633° N, 74.1738° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mohawk River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Fulton County (NY0) 881 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 12010 12070 12086
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Broadalbin860 ft
- Galway860 ft
- Perth840 ft
- Village of Broadalbin820 ft
- Hagaman740 ft
- Town of Amsterdam660 ft
- Town of Florida580 ft
- Amsterdam450 ft
- Tribes Hill430 ft
- Fort Johnson400 ft
- Glenville320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York938th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Montgomery County5th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hamilton Mountain3,250 ft
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
- Tenant Mountain2,767 ft
- Smith Mountain2,670 ft
- Black Spruce Mountain2,350 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, 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.