Philipstown, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,150 ft 350 m960 ft 290 m570 ft 175 m190 ft 60 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Philipstown sits at about 370 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 110 m
most residents: 78–850 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Foundry Cove
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the north side
Average
630 ft 195 m
all land inside town boundaries
Philipstown spans about 1,530 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 | 370 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Foundry Cove | 0 ft0 m |
| Airport (SWF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 491 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 630 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.8 mi west to east through the middle of Philipstown.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Putnam County, New York, United States
- Population
- 9,881 2024 est.
- Land area
- 48.8 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 202 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4055° N, 73.9219° 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 2
- 10516 10524
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Putnam Valley520 ft
- Philipstown370 ft
- Cornwall280 ft
- Firthcliffe260 ft
- West Point230 ft
- Nelsonville210 ft
- Highlands200 ft
- Highland Falls180 ft
- Cornwall-on-Hudson180 ft
- Fort Montgomery170 ft
- Cold Spring88 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,447th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Putnam County13th 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 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).
- 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, −3 ft at 41.3754° N, 73.9526° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.