Highland, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m370 ft 110 m310 ft 95 m190 ft 55 m63 ft 19 m2 ft 1 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Highland sits at about 330 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
330 ft 100 m
most residents: 230–390 ft
Lowest
2 ft 1 m
on the northeast side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
at the foot of the Marlboro Mountains
Average
300 ft 90 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Highland spans about 488 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 | 330 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Marlboro Mountains | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 2 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Highland | 170 ft50 m |
| Airport (POU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 164 ft50 m |
| Average of all land | 300 ft90 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 6,385 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,182 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7209° N, 73.9601° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hudson Valley Regional (POU) 164 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 12528
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lloyd340 ft
- Highland330 ft
- Milton, Ulster County240 ft
- Fairview240 ft
- Hyde Park240 ft
- Haviland230 ft
- Arlington180 ft
- Poughkeepsie180 ft
- City of Poughkeepsie170 ft
- Vassar College170 ft
- Marist College96 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,516th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County30th highest of 53
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 CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Highland is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.