Plattsburgh, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
300 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m220 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m120 ft 35 m93 ft 28 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Plattsburgh sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 130–230 ft
Lowest
93 ft 28 m
on the northeast side
Highest
300 ft 90 m
on the southwest side
Average
170 ft 55 m
all land inside city limits
Plattsburgh spans about 207 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 300 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 93 ft28 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Plattsburgh | 140 ft40 m |
| Airport (PBG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi south of the city limits | 234 ft71 m |
| Average of all land | 170 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clinton County, New York, United States
- Population
- 19,758 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,680 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6995° N, 73.4529° 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 2
- 12901 12903
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cadyville770 ft
- Schuyler Falls430 ft
- Morrisonville380 ft
- Town of Plattsburgh320 ft
- Plattsburgh West320 ft
- Beekmantown310 ft
- Parc180 ft
- Grand Isle, VT170 ft
- South Hero, VT160 ft
- Plattsburgh160 ft
- Cumberland Head140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,763rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Clinton County24th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lyon Mountain3,830 ft
- Catamount Mountain3,170 ft
- Ragged Lake Mountain2,740 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 city 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 city 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. All public domain.