Ulster, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m600 ft 180 m500 ft 150 m300 ft 90 m99 ft 30 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
Ulster sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 140–310 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the south side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on Gallis Hill
Average
240 ft 70 m
all land inside town boundaries
Ulster spans about 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 | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Gallis Hill | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 0 ft0 m |
| Airport (20N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 147 ft45 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft70 m |
| Nearest peak Ticetonyk Mountain, 7.0 mi west of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 2,503 ft763 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.7 mi west to east through the middle of Ulster.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 12,640 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.8 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 472 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9675° N, 74.0039° 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 5
- 12401 12443 12449 12475 12477
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hurley540 ft
- Town of Kingston410 ft
- Hillside320 ft
- Ruby220 ft
- Kingston180 ft
- Ulster180 ft
- Lake Katrine170 ft
- Lincoln Park170 ft
- Port Ewen170 ft
- East Kingston110 ft
- Rhinecliff100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,725th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County44th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 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).
- 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.