Glen Head, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
200 ft 60 m160 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m74 ft 23 m56 ft 17 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glen Head sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 100–180 ft
Lowest
56 ft 17 m
on the north side
Highest
200 ft 60 m
on the northwest side
Average
140 ft 40 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Glen Head spans about 144 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 200 ft60 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 56 ft17 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glen Head | 110 ft35 m |
| Airport (LGA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi west of the CDP boundary | 21 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 140 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nassau County, New York, United States
- Population
- 4,837 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,944 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8354° N, 73.6237° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Laguardia (LGA) 21 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 11545
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Roslyn190 ft
- East Hills180 ft
- Upper Brookville170 ft
- Greenvale170 ft
- Sea Cliff160 ft
- Glen Head150 ft
- Old Brookville140 ft
- Locust Valley130 ft
- Glen Cove130 ft
- Roslyn Harbor130 ft
- Glenwood Landing120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,783rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Nassau County23rd highest of 135
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Harbor Hill, Nassau County370 ft
- Mannetto Hills300 ft
- Sagamore Hill170 ft
- Budds Hill71 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Glen Head is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.