Ruby, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m350 ft 105 m260 ft 80 m180 ft 55 m140 ft 40 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ruby sits at about 220 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
220 ft 65 m
most residents: 180–360 ft
Lowest
140 ft 40 m
on the east side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the northeast side
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ruby 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 | 220 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 140 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ruby | 310 ft95 m |
| Airport (20N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 147 ft45 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 918 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 540 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0181° N, 74.0149° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Kingston-Ulster (20N) 147 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 12449 12475
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Hurley600 ft
- Zena460 ft
- Town of Kingston410 ft
- Ruby220 ft
- Ulster180 ft
- Lake Katrine170 ft
- Lincoln Park170 ft
- Glasco150 ft
- Saugerties South150 ft
- East Kingston110 ft
- Barrytown69 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,666th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County38th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Plateau Mountain3,830 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 ft
- Ticetonyk Mountain2,503 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Ruby is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.