Athens, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m520 ft 160 m430 ft 130 m260 ft 80 m87 ft 26 m0 ft 0 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
Athens sits at about 130 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
130 ft 40 m
most residents: 31–330 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the northeast side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Average
240 ft 75 m
all land inside town boundaries
Athens spans about 690 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 | 130 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Athens | 25 ft8 m |
| Airport (1B1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 198 ft60 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft75 m |
| Nearest peak Blackhead, 8.5 mi west of the town boundaries | 3,930 ft1,200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Greene County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,916 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.2 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 149 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2604° N, 73.8096° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Columbia County (1B1) 198 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 12015 12414 12451
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Claverack320 ft
- Catskill170 ft
- Lorenz Park170 ft
- Jefferson Heights170 ft
- Greenport160 ft
- Stottville160 ft
- Athens130 ft
- Sleepy Hollow Lake110 ft
- Hudson110 ft
- Village of Catskill100 ft
- Village of Athens52 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,823rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Greene County23rd highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- West Kill Mountain3,890 ft
- Plateau Mountain3,830 ft
- High Peak3,650 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −1 ft at 42.2587° N, 73.8032° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.