The phrase "above this town" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is located higher in position or elevation relative to a specific town.
Example: "The view from the hilltop was breathtaking, with the sunset casting a golden hue above this town."
Alternatives: "over this town" or "in the sky above this town".
The mansion still stands, high above this town now called, yes, Harriman.
Hussein Jan, a 51-year-old farmer, tossed a stone into a shallow pit dug on a slope above this town.
In his rubber boots, Mr. da Silva roamed the hills above this town of 6,000 people with a stick and a plastic bucket.
"That was about pleasure, and just being a director, serving the material and trying to solve spatial problems, like a balloon hovering above this town".
Macedonia used attack helicopters against ethnic Albanian rebels for the first time today, firing several rockets at their positions in the wooded hills above this town.
At a monastery perched on a hill high above this town where he receives visitors, Yushu's holiest Tibetan Buddhist monk, Aenpo Kyabgon, gingerly parried questions about the fur controversy, saying he had avoided the festival altogether.
"There's been no plan from above in this town," said Leslie Lewart, whose shop, Rugs to Riches, has been on Main Street for 11 years.
The streets of this town above the Arctic Circle and alongside the Mackenzie River are lined with heavy construction equipment and dormitory trailers for drilling workers, all poised for a long-expected natural gas bonanza.
While unemployment remains above 9 percent nationwide, in this town it is under 8 percent — 4 points lower than a year ago — partly because of hiring at the three factories, all of which have taken advantage of federal loans and tax incentives to retool, innovate and expand.
— A light breeze riffled the tops of ponderosa pines and old Douglas firs on the mountains above this tourist town.
An enormous Croatian flag, brightly lit through the night, rides high above the medieval fortress that squats above this ugly town like a heavy helmet.
