Speculator, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,430 ft 1,045 m2,980 ft 910 m2,760 ft 840 m2,310 ft 705 m1,870 ft 570 m1,640 ft 500 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Speculator sits at about 1,760 ft (540 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,760 ft 540 m
most residents: 1,730–2,030 ft
Lowest
1,640 ft 500 m
on the north side
Highest
3,430 ft 1,045 m
on the north side
Average
2,070 ft 630 m
all land inside village limits
Speculator spans about 1,790 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 | 1,760 ft540 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 3,430 ft1,045 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Speculator | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Airport (K09) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi west of the village limits | 1,703 ft519 m |
| Average of all land | 2,070 ft630 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
13 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Hamilton County, New York, United States
- Population
- 400 2024 est.
- Land area
- 44.6 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4973° N, 74.3618° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Adirondack
- Drains to
- Sacandaga River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Piseco (K09) 1,703 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 12108 12164
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morehouse1,800 ft
- Speculator1,760 ft
- Lake Pleasant1,760 ft
- Indian Lake1,720 ft
- Arietta1,720 ft
- Johnsburg1,300 ft
- Benson1,280 ft
- Hope1,150 ft
- Wells1,090 ft
- Northampton810 ft
- Village of Northville800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York68th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Hamilton County4th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Ridge3,860 ft
- Wakely Mountain3,760 ft
- Little Moose Mountain3,530 ft
- Hamilton Mountain3,250 ft
- Dug Mountain3,240 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (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.