Chester, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 350 m960 ft 290 m860 ft 265 m680 ft 205 m490 ft 150 m400 ft 120 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
Chester sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 450–810 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
on Sugarloaf Mountain
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside town boundaries
Chester spans about 740 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Sugarloaf Mountain | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chester | 470 ft140 m |
| Airport (SWF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 491 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Orange County, New York, United States
- Population
- 12,775 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 510 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3626° N, 74.2713° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New York Stewart International (SWF) 491 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 10918 10950 10990
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Walton Park760 ft
- Monroe710 ft
- Village of Monroe660 ft
- South Blooming Grove620 ft
- Chester540 ft
- Florida490 ft
- Village of Chester480 ft
- Village of Goshen470 ft
- Goshen470 ft
- Blooming Grove450 ft
- Hamptonburgh410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,132nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Orange County28th highest of 60
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Slide Mountain4,180 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 ft
- Ticetonyk Mountain2,503 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 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.