Canaan, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,970 ft 600 m1,640 ft 500 m1,470 ft 450 m1,140 ft 350 m810 ft 245 m650 ft 195 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
Canaan sits at about 1,050 ft (320 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,050 ft 320 m
most residents: 830–1,410 ft
Lowest
650 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
1,970 ft 600 m
on the east side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside town boundaries
Canaan spans about 1,320 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 | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 1,970 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 650 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Canaan | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (PSF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi east of the town boundaries | 1,189 ft362 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Columbia County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,537 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4120° N, 73.4471° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Pittsfield Municipal (PSF) 1,189 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 12029 12060
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Austerlitz1,180 ft
- Richmond, MA1,170 ft
- Lenox, MA1,140 ft
- Stephentown1,080 ft
- Canaan1,050 ft
- West Stockbridge, MA930 ft
- New Lebanon910 ft
- East Nassau710 ft
- Chatham470 ft
- Village of Chatham460 ft
- Ghent410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York574th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Columbia County2nd highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- Plateau Mountain3,830 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 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.