Philmont, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m590 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m440 ft 135 m340 ft 105 m290 ft 90 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
Philmont sits at about 450 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 135 m
most residents: 390–620 ft
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the west side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the southeast side
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside village limits
Philmont spans about 400 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 | 450 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 290 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Philmont | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (1B1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi northwest of the village limits | 198 ft60 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Columbia County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,483 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,220 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2484° N, 73.6532° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Columbia County (1B1) 198 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 12565
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Taghkanic630 ft
- Philmont450 ft
- Ghent410 ft
- Claverack320 ft
- Claverack-Red Mills190 ft
- Lorenz Park170 ft
- Greenport160 ft
- Stottville160 ft
- Stockport150 ft
- Athens130 ft
- Hudson110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,279th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Columbia County14th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- Plateau Mountain3,830 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 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.