Watchtower, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m340 ft 105 m320 ft 95 m290 ft 85 m270 ft 85 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
Watchtower sits at about 340 ft (100 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
340 ft 100 m
few residents
Lowest
270 ft 85 m
on the southeast side
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the west side
Average
330 ft 100 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Watchtower spans about 120 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 340 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 270 ft85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Watchtower | 350 ft105 m |
| Airport (SWF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 491 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 330 ft100 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Don Bosco, 5.1 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 2,290 ft700 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,709 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 2,404 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6378° N, 74.2603° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Wallkill River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New York Stewart International (SWF) 491 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 12589
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cragsmoor1,690 ft
- Walker Valley880 ft
- Crawford470 ft
- Montgomery390 ft
- Pine Bush390 ft
- Village of Montgomery390 ft
- Shawangunk380 ft
- Walden370 ft
- Watchtower340 ft
- Gardiner320 ft
- Wallkill, Ulster County310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,497th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County28th highest of 53
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 median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Watchtower 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.