Johnstown, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
920 ft 280 m810 ft 245 m760 ft 230 m650 ft 200 m540 ft 165 m490 ft 150 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Johnstown sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 660–740 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the southwest side
Highest
920 ft 280 m
on the north side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside city limits
Johnstown spans about 430 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 920 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Johnstown | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (NY0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi east of the city limits | 881 ft269 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fulton County, New York, United States
- Population
- 8,027 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,665 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0067° N, 74.3676° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mohawk River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Fulton County (NY0) 881 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 12095
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bleecker1,450 ft
- Town of Johnstown870 ft
- Gloversville850 ft
- Mayfield830 ft
- Johnstown690 ft
- Glen490 ft
- Mohawk440 ft
- Tribes Hill430 ft
- Fort Johnson400 ft
- Fonda350 ft
- Fultonville300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York911th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Fulton Countylowest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hamilton Mountain3,250 ft
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
- Blue Hills2,920 ft
- Tenant Mountain2,767 ft
- Smith Mountain2,670 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.