Glen Cove, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
180 ft 55 m140 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m68 ft 21 m23 ft 7 m0 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glen Cove sits at about 130 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
130 ft 40 m
most residents: 79–160 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Long Island Sound
Highest
180 ft 55 m
on the northeast side
Average
100 ft 30 m
all land inside city limits
Glen Cove spans about 180 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 | 130 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 180 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Long Island Sound | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glen Cove | 22 ft7 m |
| Airport (LGA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the city limits | 21 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 100 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nassau County, New York, United States
- Population
- 28,088 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi + 12.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,219 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8623° N, 73.6337° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Laguardia (LGA) 21 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 11542
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greenvale170 ft
- Sea Cliff160 ft
- Glen Head150 ft
- Matinecock150 ft
- Old Brookville140 ft
- Locust Valley130 ft
- Glen Cove130 ft
- Roslyn Harbor130 ft
- Glenwood Landing120 ft
- Lattingtown50 ft
- Baxter Estates19 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,825th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Nassau County35th highest of 135
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Harbor Hill, Nassau County370 ft
- Sagamore Hill170 ft
- Thealls Hill120 ft
- Budds Hill71 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −4 ft at 40.9007° N, 73.6338° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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. All public domain.