Wawarsing, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,400 ft 730 m1,850 ft 565 m1,580 ft 480 m1,040 ft 315 m500 ft 150 m230 ft 70 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wawarsing sits at about 370 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 115 m
most residents: 290–1,190 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the east side
Highest
2,400 ft 730 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,110 ft 335 m
all land inside town boundaries
Wawarsing spans about 2,170 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 | 370 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,400 ft730 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 230 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wawarsing | 290 ft90 m |
| Airport (N89) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 290 ft88 m |
| Average of all land | 1,110 ft335 m |
| Nearest peak Slide Mountain, 9.2 mi north of the town boundaries | 4,180 ft1,275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Population
- 12,517 2024 est.
- Land area
- 130.5 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 96 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7590° N, 74.3574° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Rondout Creek → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Joseph Y Resnick (N89) 290 ft
- ZIP codes 10
- 12420 12428 12435 12446 12458 12489 12566 12740 12763 12789
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cragsmoor1,690 ft
- Mountain Dale1,130 ft
- Walker Valley880 ft
- Napanoch590 ft
- Town of Rochester450 ft
- Pine Bush390 ft
- Wawarsing370 ft
- Ellenville350 ft
- Kerhonkson340 ft
- Watchtower340 ft
- Accord260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,439th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Ulster County22nd highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Slide Mountain4,180 ft
- North Dome3,608 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 ft
- Ticetonyk Mountain2,503 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 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.