Green Island, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
53 ft 16 m41 ft 13 m35 ft 11 m23 ft 7 m11 ft 3 m5 ft 2 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
Green Island sits at about 28 ft (9 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
28 ft 9 m
most residents: 25–48 ft
Lowest
5 ft 1 m
on the south side
Highest
53 ft 16 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
29 ft 9 m
all land inside village limits
Green Island spans about 48 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 | 28 ft9 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 53 ft16 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 5 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Green Island | 26 ft8 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi west of the village limits | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 29 ft9 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Albany County, New York, United States
- Population
- 2,971 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,977 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7442° N, 73.6915° 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
- 12183
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wynantskill390 ft
- Loudonville320 ft
- Siena College310 ft
- Latham310 ft
- Cohoes200 ft
- Troy170 ft
- Waterford160 ft
- Menands160 ft
- Watervliet36 ft
- Village of Waterford33 ft
- Green Island28 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York2,008th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Albany Countylowest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Black Spruce Mountain2,350 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.