City of Poughkeepsie, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
380 ft 115 m280 ft 85 m240 ft 70 m140 ft 45 m49 ft 15 m2 ft 1 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
City of Poughkeepsie sits at about 170 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 55 m
most residents: 110–210 ft
Lowest
2 ft 1 m
on the west side
Highest
380 ft 115 m
on the north side
Average
170 ft 50 m
all land inside city limits
City of Poughkeepsie spans about 378 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 | 170 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 380 ft115 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 2 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for City of Poughkeepsie | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (POU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi south of the city limits | 164 ft50 m |
| Average of all land | 170 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dutchess County, New York, United States
- Population
- 32,293 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 6,277 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7004° N, 73.9210° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hudson Valley Regional (POU) 164 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 12601 12603
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Highland330 ft
- Milton, Ulster County240 ft
- Fairview240 ft
- MacDonnell Heights210 ft
- Titusville190 ft
- Arlington180 ft
- Poughkeepsie180 ft
- Spackenkill170 ft
- City of Poughkeepsie170 ft
- Vassar College170 ft
- Marist College96 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,731st highest of 2,097
- Towns in Dutchess County47th 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 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.