Village of Chatham, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m630 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m500 ft 155 m420 ft 130 m380 ft 115 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Village of Chatham sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 440–550 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the northwest side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the east side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside village limits
Village of Chatham spans about 340 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Village of Chatham | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (1B1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi southwest of the village limits | 198 ft60 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Columbia County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,547 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,251 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3643° N, 73.5948° 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 1
- 12037
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Austerlitz1,180 ft
- Canaan1,050 ft
- Chatham470 ft
- Village of Chatham460 ft
- Philmont450 ft
- Ghent410 ft
- Niverville320 ft
- Kinderhook290 ft
- Valatie260 ft
- Village of Kinderhook250 ft
- Stockport150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,270th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Columbia County13th 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 village limits, 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 village limits (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.