Kingston, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
370 ft 110 m270 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m140 ft 40 m46 ft 14 m0 ft 0 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
Kingston sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 140–250 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the east side
Highest
370 ft 110 m
on Golden Hill
Average
180 ft 55 m
all land inside city limits
Kingston spans about 370 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 | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Golden Hill | 370 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kingston | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (20N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi northeast of the city limits | 147 ft45 m |
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 23,748 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,174 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9270° N, 73.9974° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Kingston-Ulster (20N) 147 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 12401
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hurley540 ft
- Hillside320 ft
- Rhinebeck200 ft
- Village of Rhinebeck200 ft
- Kingston180 ft
- Ulster180 ft
- Lake Katrine170 ft
- Lincoln Park170 ft
- Port Ewen170 ft
- East Kingston110 ft
- Rhinecliff100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,713th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County43rd highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Slide Mountain4,180 ft
- Plateau Mountain3,830 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 ft
- Ticetonyk Mountain2,503 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).
- 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, 0 ft at 41.9215° N, 73.9696° 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.