NORTH ELBA was separated from Keene on the 13th of December,
1849. It is situated on the western border of the county, north
of the center, and is bounded as follows: on the north by St.
Armańd and a portion of Wilmington; on the east by Wilmington
and Keene; on the south by Keene and Newcomb, and on the west by
a small portion of Newcomb and by Franklin county. The altitude
of the town is greater than any other cultivated lands in the
State of New York. Some of the waters of the Hudson, Raquette
and Saranac rivers, and the west branch of the Ausable and Chub
rivers have their source in this town. The Ausable and Chub
rivers drain the eastern and central parts of the town; the
tributaries of the Saranac and Raquette rivers form the drainage
of the western part, and the southern part is drained
principally by branches of the Hudson. through the interior and
west part of the town is moderately rolling, but in the south,
east and northeast the country assumes the elevated and broken
altitude of mountains. Border