Altamont, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m660 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m500 ft 150 m390 ft 120 m340 ft 105 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Altamont sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 410–560 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the northeast side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
at the foot of the Helderberg Mountains
Average
470 ft 140 m
all land inside village limits
Altamont spans about 430 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, at the foot of the Helderberg Mountains | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Altamont | 470 ft140 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi east of the village limits | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Albany County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,651 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,304 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7006° N, 74.0337° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Albany International (ALB) 285 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 12009
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Berne1,360 ft
- Knox1,210 ft
- Duanesburg1,010 ft
- Duane Lake900 ft
- Princetown620 ft
- Altamont440 ft
- New Scotland360 ft
- Voorheesville340 ft
- Rotterdam340 ft
- Guilderland280 ft
- Westmere260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,297th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Albany County6th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Bearpen Mountain3,590 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (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.