Colton, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,610 ft 795 m2,110 ft 640 m1,860 ft 565 m1,350 ft 410 m850 ft 260 m600 ft 180 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Colton sits at about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 300 m
most residents: 850–1,210 ft
Lowest
600 ft 180 m
near the middle
Highest
2,610 ft 795 m
on Silver Lake Mountain
Average
1,480 ft 450 m
all land inside town boundaries
Colton spans about 2,010 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Silver Lake Mountain | 2,610 ft795 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 600 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colton | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (PTD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi north of the town boundaries | 474 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 1,480 ft450 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,491 2024 est.
- Land area
- 241.7 sq mi + 13.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5531° N, 74.9396° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Adirondack
- Drains to
- Raquette River → Saint Lawrence River → Canada
- Airport
- Potsdam Municipal/Damon Field (PTD) 474 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 12847 12922 12927 13625 13672 13687
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Colton990 ft
- Clare880 ft
- Parishville830 ft
- Russell750 ft
- Pierrepont640 ft
- Hannawa Falls580 ft
- Village of Potsdam440 ft
- Potsdam430 ft
- Canton380 ft
- Village of Canton380 ft
- Norwood330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York627th highest of 2,097
- Towns in St. Lawrence County6th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kempshall Mountain3,360 ft
- Mount Morris3,140 ft
- West Mountain2,911 ft
- Saint Regis Mountain2,870 ft
- Mount Matumbla2,690 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.