Town of Rochester, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,630 ft 800 m2,020 ft 615 m1,710 ft 520 m1,100 ft 335 m490 ft 150 m180 ft 55 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
Town of Rochester sits at about 450 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 135 m
most residents: 260–1,000 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the east side
Highest
2,630 ft 800 m
at the foot of the Burroughs Range
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Rochester spans about 2,450 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 | 450 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, at the foot of the Burroughs Range | 2,630 ft800 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 180 ft55 m |
| Airport (N89) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 290 ft88 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
| Nearest peak Slide Mountain, 6.1 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 4,180 ft1,275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through the middle of Town of Rochester.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 7,408 2024 est.
- Land area
- 89.3 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 83 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8088° N, 74.2674° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Rondout Creek → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Joseph Y Resnick (N89) 290 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 12404 12440 12446 12458
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Olive770 ft
- Napanoch590 ft
- Town of Rochester450 ft
- Marbletown370 ft
- Wawarsing370 ft
- Ellenville350 ft
- Kerhonkson340 ft
- Stone Ridge330 ft
- Accord260 ft
- Rosendale210 ft
- High Falls200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,288th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County17th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Slide Mountain4,180 ft
- West Kill Mountain3,890 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 ft
- Ticetonyk Mountain2,503 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 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.