Shawangunk, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,220 ft 675 m1,720 ft 525 m1,460 ft 445 m960 ft 295 m460 ft 140 m210 ft 65 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
Shawangunk sits at about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
380 ft 115 m
most residents: 300–670 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the east side
Highest
2,220 ft 675 m
on the northwest side
Average
520 ft 155 m
all land inside town boundaries
Shawangunk spans about 2,010 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,220 ft675 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (SWF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 491 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
13 mi west to east through the middle of Shawangunk.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 13,418 2024 est.
- Land area
- 56.1 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 239 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6270° N, 74.2388° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Wallkill River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New York Stewart International (SWF) 491 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 12525 12566 12589
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cragsmoor1,690 ft
- Walker Valley880 ft
- Crawford470 ft
- Montgomery390 ft
- Pine Bush390 ft
- Village of Montgomery390 ft
- Shawangunk380 ft
- Walden370 ft
- Watchtower340 ft
- Gardiner320 ft
- Wallkill, Ulster County310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,429th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County20th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Slide Mountain4,180 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 ft
- Ticetonyk Mountain2,503 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 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.