Village of Colonie, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
360 ft 110 m340 ft 105 m320 ft 100 m300 ft 90 m270 ft 85 m260 ft 80 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
Village of Colonie sits at about 310 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
310 ft 95 m
most residents: 290–340 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the south side
Highest
360 ft 110 m
on the north side
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside village limits
Village of Colonie spans about 100 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 | 310 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 360 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 260 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Village of Colonie | 310 ft95 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi northeast of the village limits | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Albany County, New York, United States
- Population
- 7,691 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- Density
- 2,372 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7179° N, 73.8335° 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 1
- 12205
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Niskayuna390 ft
- Loudonville320 ft
- Siena College310 ft
- Latham310 ft
- Village of Colonie310 ft
- Colonie300 ft
- Guilderland280 ft
- Roessleville270 ft
- Westmere260 ft
- Albany220 ft
- Menands160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,554th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Albany County12th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 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.