Salem, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,490 ft 455 m1,220 ft 370 m1,080 ft 330 m810 ft 250 m540 ft 165 m410 ft 125 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
Salem sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 450–770 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside town boundaries
Salem spans about 1,080 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Salem | 480 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Washington County, New York, United States
- Population
- 2,600 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 50 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1723° N, 73.3276° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 12865 12873
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sandgate, VT1,410 ft
- Rupert, VT1,090 ft
- Hebron830 ft
- Arlington, VT800 ft
- Jackson600 ft
- Salem550 ft
- Village of Cambridge500 ft
- Argyle420 ft
- Greenwich360 ft
- Village of Greenwich360 ft
- Village of Argyle290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,107th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Washington County5th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Black Mountain2,650 ft
- Black Spruce Mountain2,350 ft
- Fivemile Mountain2,240 ft
- Vanderburg Mountain1,920 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.