Hamilton County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,900 ft 1,190 m3,120 ft 950 m2,730 ft 830 m1,940 ft 595 m1,160 ft 355 m770 ft 235 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hamilton County averages about 2,000 ft (610 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 770 ft on the southeast side to 3,903 ft on Snowy Mountain.
Average elevation
2,000 ft 610 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,903 ft 1,190 m
on Snowy Mountain
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the southeast side
Hamilton County spans about 3,130 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Snowy Mountain (NGS survey height) | 3,903 ft1,190 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
38 mi west to east through Indian Lake.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 5,082 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,717.4 sq mi + 90.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.0 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Adirondack
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 67%, Canada 25%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hamilton County2,000 ft
- Essex County1,640 ft
- Herkimer County1,530 ft
- Franklin County1,390 ft
- Warren County1,320 ft
- Fulton County1,240 ft
- St. Lawrence County810 ft
- Saratoga County730 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Yorkhighest of 62
- Counties in the United States625th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Blue Ridge3,860 ft
- Blue Mountain3,763 ft
- Wakely Mountain3,760 ft
- Dun Brook Mountain3,610 ft
- Little Moose Mountain3,530 ft
All 10 towns in Hamilton County by typical elevation
- Inlet1,880 ft
- Long Lake1,810 ft
- Morehouse1,800 ft
- Speculator1,760 ft
- Lake Pleasant1,760 ft
- Indian Lake1,720 ft
- Arietta1,720 ft
- Benson1,280 ft
- Hope1,150 ft
- Wells1,090 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.