South Cairo, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m360 ft 110 m320 ft 100 m250 ft 80 m190 ft 55 m150 ft 45 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
South Cairo sits at about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
260 ft 80 m
most residents: 220–370 ft
Lowest
150 ft 45 m
on the southeast side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
at the foot of the Blackhead Mountains
Average
290 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Cairo spans about 280 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 | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Blackhead Mountains | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 150 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Cairo | 200 ft60 m |
| Average of all land | 290 ft85 m |
| Nearest peak Blackhead, 6.7 mi west of the CDP boundary | 3,930 ft1,200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Greene County, New York, United States
- Population
- 590 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Density
- 255 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2770° N, 73.9568° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 12482
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Round Top780 ft
- Palenville520 ft
- Cairo520 ft
- South Cairo260 ft
- Leeds210 ft
- Catskill170 ft
- Jefferson Heights170 ft
- Athens130 ft
- Sleepy Hollow Lake110 ft
- Village of Catskill100 ft
- Village of Athens52 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,622nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Greene County19th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- West Kill Mountain3,890 ft
- Plateau Mountain3,830 ft
- High Peak3,650 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.
- South Cairo 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.