Galway, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 385 m1,070 ft 325 m970 ft 295 m770 ft 235 m570 ft 175 m470 ft 145 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
Galway sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 620–1,020 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the east side
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the north side
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside town boundaries
Galway spans about 800 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 470 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Galway | 840 ft255 m |
| Airport (5B2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi east of the town boundaries | 434 ft132 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Saratoga County, New York, United States
- Population
- 3,516 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.8 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 80 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0187° N, 74.0315° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Saratoga County (5B2) 434 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 12010 12020 12025 12074 12086 12850
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Providence1,130 ft
- Broadalbin860 ft
- Galway860 ft
- Perth840 ft
- Village of Galway830 ft
- Village of Broadalbin820 ft
- Hagaman740 ft
- Town of Amsterdam660 ft
- Charlton470 ft
- North Ballston Spa400 ft
- Glenville320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York760th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Saratoga County4th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hamilton Mountain3,250 ft
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 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.