Highlands, NY Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Highlands, New York, shaded from 0 ft on the north side to 1,440 ft on Spy Rock
Elevation
1,440 ft 440 m1,080 ft 330 m900 ft 275 m540 ft 165 m180 ft 55 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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

Highlands sits at about 200 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
200 ft 60 m
most residents: 150–400 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the north side
Highest
1,440 ft 440 m
on Spy Rock
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside town boundaries

Highlands spans about 1,440 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
200 ft60 m
Highest point
Inside town boundaries, on Spy Rock
1,440 ft440 m
Lowest point
Inside town boundaries, on the north side
0 ft0 m
Airport (SWF)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi northwest of the town boundaries
491 ft150 m
Average of all land750 ft230 m

Elevation profile, west to east

5.1 mi west to east through the middle of Highlands.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Highlands, New York, shaded from 0 ft on the north side to 1,440 ft on Spy Rock
Town boundaries (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 100 ft (30 m).
Location
Town in Orange County, New York, United States
Population
12,703 2024 est.
Land area
30.4 sq mi + 3.1 sq mi water
Density
418 per sq mi
Coordinates
41.3766° N, 73.9682° 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
10922 10928 10996
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Putnam Valley520 ft
  2. Philipstown370 ft
  3. Cornwall280 ft
  4. Firthcliffe260 ft
  5. West Point230 ft
  6. Nelsonville210 ft
  7. Highlands200 ft
  8. Highland Falls180 ft
  9. Cornwall-on-Hudson180 ft
  10. Fort Montgomery170 ft
  11. Cold Spring88 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

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).
  • 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, −2 ft at 41.3212° N, 73.9874° 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.