Orange County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,670 ft 510 m1,250 ft 380 m1,050 ft 320 m630 ft 190 m210 ft 65 m0 ft 0 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Orange County averages about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 0 ft on the east side to 1,670 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
630 ft 190 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the east side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the east side
Orange County spans about 1,670 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
36 mi west to east through Palm Tree.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 411,767 2024 est.
- Land area
- 812.1 sq mi + 26.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 507 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 58%, New England 37%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Sullivan County1,420 ft
- Pike County, PA1,260 ft
- Ulster County1,140 ft
- Sussex County, NJ790 ft
- Putnam County660 ft
- Orange County630 ft
- Passaic County, NJ600 ft
- Dutchess County550 ft
- Rockland County460 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New York44th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States2,163rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Schunnemunk Mountain1,670 ft
- Taylor Mountain, Orange County1,490 ft
- Spy Rock1,440 ft
- Bull Hill, Orange County1,410 ft
- Mount Rascal, Orange County1,400 ft
All 60 towns in Orange County by typical elevation
- Town of Greenville910 ft
- Otisville830 ft
- Mount Hope830 ft
- Walton Park760 ft
- Kiryas Joel740 ft
- Palm Tree740 ft
- Mountain Lodge Park720 ft
- Monroe710 ft
- Tuxedo Park690 ft
- Scotchtown680 ft
- Tuxedo680 ft
- Village of Woodbury670 ft
- Village of Monroe660 ft
- Woodbury660 ft
- Greenwood Lake640 ft
- Washington Heights630 ft
- Wallkill620 ft
- South Blooming Grove620 ft
- Harriman600 ft
- Village of Tuxedo590 ft
- Warwick590 ft
- Middletown580 ft
- Unionville580 ft
- Minisink580 ft
- Wawayanda560 ft
- Village of Warwick560 ft
- Sparrow Bush540 ft
- Chester540 ft
- Mechanicstown530 ft
- Deerpark530 ft
- Orange Lake520 ft
- Florida490 ft
- Newburgh480 ft
- Village of Chester480 ft
- Village of Goshen470 ft
- Goshen470 ft
- Crawford470 ft
- Blooming Grove450 ft
- Port Jervis450 ft
- Maybrook430 ft
- Hamptonburgh410 ft
- Montgomery390 ft
- Pine Bush390 ft
- Village of Montgomery390 ft
- Beaver Dam Lake380 ft
- Walden370 ft
- Gardnertown360 ft
- New Windsor340 ft
- Salisbury Mills330 ft
- Washingtonville330 ft
- Balmville310 ft
- Cornwall280 ft
- Vails Gate270 ft
- Firthcliffe260 ft
- West Point230 ft
- Highlands200 ft
- Highland Falls180 ft
- Cornwall-on-Hudson180 ft
- City of Newburgh170 ft
- Fort Montgomery170 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, −2 ft at 41.3212° N, 73.9874° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.