Ghent, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m750 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m420 ft 130 m200 ft 60 m95 ft 29 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
Ghent sits at about 410 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
410 ft 125 m
most residents: 210–590 ft
Lowest
95 ft 29 m
on the west side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the south side
Average
400 ft 120 m
all land inside town boundaries
Ghent spans about 875 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 | 410 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 95 ft29 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ghent | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (1B1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 198 ft60 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Columbia County, New York, United States
- Population
- 5,212 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 115 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3293° N, 73.6157° 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 5
- 12037 12075 12184 12529 12534
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Austerlitz1,180 ft
- Chatham470 ft
- Village of Chatham460 ft
- Philmont450 ft
- Ghent410 ft
- Niverville320 ft
- Kinderhook290 ft
- Valatie260 ft
- Village of Kinderhook250 ft
- Stottville160 ft
- Stockport150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,369th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Columbia County15th 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).
- 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, 94 ft at 42.3121° N, 73.7260° 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.