Moriah, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,560 ft 780 m1,940 ft 590 m1,630 ft 500 m1,020 ft 310 m400 ft 120 m93 ft 28 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
Moriah sits at about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 295 m
most residents: 230–1,520 ft
Lowest
93 ft 28 m
on the east side
Highest
2,560 ft 780 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,170 ft 360 m
all land inside town boundaries
Moriah spans about 2,467 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 | 960 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,560 ft780 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 93 ft28 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Moriah | 850 ft260 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft360 m |
| Nearest peak Giant Mountain, 6.2 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 4,620 ft1,410 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Essex County, New York, United States
- Population
- 4,364 2024 est.
- Land area
- 64.5 sq mi + 6.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 68 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0462° N, 73.5051° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Adirondack
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- ZIP codes 6
- 12956 12960 12961 12974 12993 12998
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Witherbee1,320 ft
- Mineville1,220 ft
- North Hudson1,160 ft
- Moriah960 ft
- Elizabethtown630 ft
- Crown Point380 ft
- Port Henry370 ft
- Westport310 ft
- Bridport, VT240 ft
- Panton, VT160 ft
- Addison, VT150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York649th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Essex County11th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dix Mountain4,850 ft
- Giant Mountain4,620 ft
- Hurricane Mountain3,690 ft
- Hail Mountain2,670 ft
- Moose Mountain, Essex County2,410 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.