North Elba, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,110 ft 1,555 m4,210 ft 1,280 m3,760 ft 1,145 m2,860 ft 870 m1,960 ft 600 m1,510 ft 460 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
North Elba sits at about 1,780 ft (540 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,780 ft 540 m
most residents: 1,570–2,240 ft
Lowest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the northwest side
Highest
5,110 ft 1,555 m
on MacIntyre Mountains
Average
2,320 ft 705 m
all land inside town boundaries
North Elba spans about 3,600 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 | 1,780 ft540 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on MacIntyre Mountains | 5,110 ft1,555 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Elba | 1,970 ft600 m |
| Airport (LKP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,747 ft532 m |
| Average of all land | 2,320 ft705 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Essex County, New York, United States
- Population
- 7,660 2024 est.
- Land area
- 151.7 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 50 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2434° N, 73.9543° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Adirondack
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Lake Placid (LKP) 1,747 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 12946 12977 12983
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Placid1,810 ft
- North Elba1,780 ft
- Franklin, Franklin County1,710 ft
- St. Armand1,650 ft
- Harrietstown1,620 ft
- Saranac Lake1,590 ft
- Keene1,310 ft
- Black Brook1,140 ft
- Wilmington1,090 ft
- Jay920 ft
- Elizabethtown630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York64th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Essex County2nd highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- MacIntyre Mountains5,110 ft
- Whiteface Mountain4,866 ft
- Cascade Mountain4,090 ft
- Moose Mountain, Essex County3,890 ft
- Kilburn Mountain3,880 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.