Pittstown, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,050 ft 320 m920 ft 280 m660 ft 200 m400 ft 120 m270 ft 85 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
Pittstown sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 380–690 ft
Lowest
270 ft 85 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the east side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside town boundaries
Pittstown spans about 1,040 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 270 ft85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pittstown | 580 ft175 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States
- Population
- 5,451 2024 est.
- Land area
- 61.6 sq mi + 3.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 88 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8351° N, 73.4851° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 8
- 12028 12090 12094 12121 12154 12180 12182 12185
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grafton1,470 ft
- Petersburgh1,100 ft
- Pittstown550 ft
- Hoosick530 ft
- Brunswick500 ft
- Hoosick Falls470 ft
- Valley Falls370 ft
- Schaghticoke340 ft
- Village of Schaghticoke330 ft
- Waterford160 ft
- Village of Waterford33 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,106th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Rensselaer County11th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Tenant Mountain2,767 ft
- Black Spruce Mountain2,350 ft
- Vanderburg Mountain1,920 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.