Poughkeepsie, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m360 ft 110 m300 ft 90 m180 ft 55 m60 ft 18 m0 ft 0 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
Poughkeepsie sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 110–250 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the south side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Average
170 ft 55 m
all land inside town boundaries
Poughkeepsie spans about 480 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 | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 0 ft0 m |
| Airport (SWF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.4 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 491 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 170 ft55 m |
| Nearest peak South Beacon Mountain, 6.9 mi south of the town boundaries | 1,600 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.7 mi west to east through the middle of Poughkeepsie.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Dutchess County, New York, United States
- Population
- 45,708 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.5 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,602 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6712° N, 73.9075° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New York Stewart International (SWF) 491 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 12590 12601 12603 12604
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Milton, Ulster County240 ft
- Fairview240 ft
- MacDonnell Heights210 ft
- Titusville190 ft
- Arlington180 ft
- Poughkeepsie180 ft
- Spackenkill170 ft
- City of Poughkeepsie170 ft
- Red Oaks Mill170 ft
- Vassar College170 ft
- Crown Heights140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,721st highest of 2,097
- Towns in Dutchess County45th highest of 59
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, −270 ft at 41.6346° N, 73.9407° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.