Monroe, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,130 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m830 ft 250 m630 ft 190 m530 ft 160 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Monroe sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 600–870 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the southwest side
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside town boundaries
Monroe spans about 800 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 530 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Monroe | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (SWF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi north of the town boundaries | 491 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Orange County, New York, United States
- Population
- 22,459 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.5 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,211 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3306° N, 74.1868° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Passaic River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New York Stewart International (SWF) 491 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 10926 10950
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Walton Park760 ft
- Kiryas Joel740 ft
- Palm Tree740 ft
- Mountain Lodge Park720 ft
- Monroe710 ft
- Village of Woodbury670 ft
- Village of Monroe660 ft
- Woodbury660 ft
- South Blooming Grove620 ft
- Harriman600 ft
- Chester540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York898th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Orange County8th highest of 60
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).
- 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.