Saugerties, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,320 ft 705 m1,740 ft 530 m1,450 ft 440 m870 ft 265 m290 ft 90 m0 ft 0 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
Saugerties sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 120–450 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on South Bay
Highest
2,320 ft 705 m
at the foot of the Blackhead Mountains
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside town boundaries
Saugerties spans about 2,320 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, at the foot of the Blackhead Mountains | 2,320 ft705 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets South Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Saugerties | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (20N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi south of the town boundaries | 147 ft45 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
| Nearest peak High Peak, 1.7 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 3,650 ft1,110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 19,434 2024 est.
- Land area
- 64.6 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 301 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0776° N, 73.9529° 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 6
- 12432 12453 12456 12477 12490 12498
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ruby220 ft
- Germantown180 ft
- Saugerties160 ft
- Bard College160 ft
- Malden-on-Hudson150 ft
- Glasco150 ft
- Tivoli150 ft
- Saugerties South150 ft
- Village of Saugerties140 ft
- Cementon79 ft
- Barrytown69 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,757th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County48th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 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 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −1 ft at 42.0654° N, 73.9299° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.