Peru, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,130 ft 650 m1,620 ft 495 m1,360 ft 415 m860 ft 260 m350 ft 105 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
Peru sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 170–680 ft
Lowest
93 ft 28 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,130 ft 650 m
on Buckley Mountain
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside town boundaries
Peru spans about 2,037 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Buckley Mountain | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 93 ft28 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Peru | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (PBG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 234 ft71 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
| Nearest peak Catamount Mountain, 9.0 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 3,170 ft965 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
17 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Clinton County, New York, United States
- Population
- 6,652 2024 est.
- Land area
- 78.9 sq mi + 13.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 84 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5784° N, 73.5268° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Plattsburgh International (PBG) 234 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 12901 12972 12985
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cadyville770 ft
- Au Sable510 ft
- Keeseville510 ft
- Chesterfield500 ft
- Schuyler Falls430 ft
- Morrisonville380 ft
- Peru350 ft
- Town of Plattsburgh320 ft
- Plattsburgh West320 ft
- Parc180 ft
- Plattsburgh160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,465th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Clinton County16th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Whiteface Mountain4,866 ft
- Lyon Mountain3,830 ft
- Catamount Mountain3,170 ft
- Duncan Mountain2,720 ft
- Old Rang Mountain2,280 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.