Nelsonville, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,110 ft 335 m860 ft 265 m740 ft 225 m500 ft 155 m260 ft 80 m140 ft 40 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Nelsonville sits at about 210 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
210 ft 65 m
most residents: 180–330 ft
Lowest
140 ft 40 m
on the south side
Highest
1,110 ft 335 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
370 ft 110 m
all land inside village limits
Nelsonville spans about 970 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 | 210 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,110 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 140 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nelsonville | 190 ft60 m |
| Airport (SWF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.1 mi northwest of the village limits | 491 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Putnam County, New York, United States
- Population
- 631 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 610 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4245° N, 73.9465° 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 1
- 10516
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Philipstown370 ft
- New Windsor340 ft
- Cornwall280 ft
- Firthcliffe260 ft
- West Point230 ft
- Nelsonville210 ft
- Highlands200 ft
- Highland Falls180 ft
- Cornwall-on-Hudson180 ft
- Beacon150 ft
- Cold Spring88 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,675th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Putnam County14th highest of 15
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 village 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 village 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.