Vails Gate, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
320 ft 100 m250 ft 75 m220 ft 65 m140 ft 45 m73 ft 22 m37 ft 11 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
Vails Gate sits at about 270 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 80 m
most residents: 240–290 ft
Lowest
37 ft 11 m
on the east side
Highest
320 ft 100 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
250 ft 75 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Vails Gate spans about 283 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 | 270 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 320 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 37 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vails Gate | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (SWF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 491 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 250 ft75 m |
| Nearest peak South Beacon Mountain, 5.2 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,600 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Orange County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,368 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 3,267 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4543° N, 74.0576° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New York Stewart International (SWF) 491 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 12553
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Beaver Dam Lake380 ft
- Gardnertown360 ft
- New Windsor340 ft
- Salisbury Mills330 ft
- Balmville310 ft
- Cornwall280 ft
- Vails Gate270 ft
- Firthcliffe260 ft
- Cornwall-on-Hudson180 ft
- City of Newburgh170 ft
- Beacon150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,613th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Orange County53rd highest of 60
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 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.
- Vails Gate 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.