Saranac, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,830 ft 1,170 m3,060 ft 930 m2,670 ft 815 m1,890 ft 575 m1,120 ft 340 m730 ft 220 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
Saranac sits at about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
most residents: 770–1,410 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,830 ft 1,170 m
on Lyon Mountain
Average
1,500 ft 460 m
all land inside town boundaries
Saranac spans about 3,100 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Lyon Mountain | 3,830 ft1,170 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 730 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Saranac | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (PBG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.1 mi east of the town boundaries | 234 ft71 m |
| Average of all land | 1,500 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
15 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Clinton County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,795 2024 est.
- Land area
- 114.8 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 33 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6514° N, 73.7435° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Adirondack
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Plattsburgh International (PBG) 234 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 12918 12929 12952 12978 12981
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lyon Mountain1,860 ft
- Village of Dannemora1,450 ft
- Dannemora1,450 ft
- Saranac1,170 ft
- Redford1,160 ft
- Cadyville770 ft
- Schuyler Falls430 ft
- Morrisonville380 ft
- Peru350 ft
- Town of Plattsburgh320 ft
- Plattsburgh West320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York477th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Clinton County6th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lyon Mountain3,830 ft
- Catamount Mountain3,170 ft
- Kate Mountain2,840 ft
- Ragged Lake Mountain2,740 ft
- Duncan Mountain2,720 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. All public domain.