Potsdam, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m400 ft 120 m310 ft 95 m270 ft 80 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
Potsdam sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 340–470 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the northwest side
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the east side
Average
400 ft 120 m
all land inside town boundaries
Potsdam spans about 340 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 270 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Potsdam | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (PTD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 474 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States
- Population
- 14,518 2024 est.
- Land area
- 101.4 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 143 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6698° N, 74.9813° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Saint Lawrence River → Canada
- Airport
- Potsdam Municipal/Damon Field (PTD) 474 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 13617 13660 13668 13676 13699
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Colton990 ft
- Parishville830 ft
- Pierrepont640 ft
- Hannawa Falls580 ft
- Village of Potsdam440 ft
- Potsdam430 ft
- Canton380 ft
- Stockholm360 ft
- Norwood330 ft
- Madrid300 ft
- Norfolk270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,311th highest of 2,097
- Towns in St. Lawrence County23rd highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Loon Lake Mountains3,328 ft
- Debar Mountain3,270 ft
- Mount Morris3,140 ft
- Saint Regis Mountain2,870 ft
- Mount Matumbla2,690 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.