Ballston, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m460 ft 140 m420 ft 130 m340 ft 105 m260 ft 80 m220 ft 70 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Ballston sits at about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
360 ft 110 m
most residents: 310–420 ft
Lowest
220 ft 70 m
on the northeast side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the northwest side
Average
380 ft 115 m
all land inside town boundaries
Ballston spans about 320 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 | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 220 ft70 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi south of the town boundaries | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 380 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.0 mi west to east through the middle of Ballston.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Saratoga County, New York, United States
- Population
- 13,057 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.6 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 441 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9520° N, 73.8712° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Albany International (ALB) 285 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 12019 12020 12027
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Charlton470 ft
- Milton410 ft
- North Ballston Spa400 ft
- Ballston360 ft
- East Glenville340 ft
- Ballston Spa320 ft
- Malta320 ft
- Country Knolls310 ft
- Clifton Park310 ft
- Clifton Knolls-Mill Creek300 ft
- Round Lake210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,452nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Saratoga County13th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Tenant Mountain2,767 ft
- Smith Mountain2,670 ft
- Black Spruce Mountain2,350 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.