Taconic Shores, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m550 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Taconic Shores sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 540–570 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the west side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Taconic Shores spans about 220 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Taconic Shores | 550 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Columbia County, New York, United States
- Population
- 547 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 657 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1128° N, 73.5558° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Roeliff Jansen Kill → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 12516
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Washington, MA1,660 ft
- Hillsdale940 ft
- Egremont, MA830 ft
- Copake Lake790 ft
- Sheffield, MA680 ft
- Copake670 ft
- Copake Falls650 ft
- Ancram640 ft
- Taghkanic630 ft
- Gallatin590 ft
- Taconic Shores550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,111th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Columbia County11th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- Plateau Mountain3,830 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 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.
- Taconic Shores 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.