New Scotland, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,820 ft 555 m1,390 ft 425 m1,170 ft 360 m740 ft 225 m310 ft 95 m99 ft 30 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
New Scotland sits at about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
360 ft 110 m
most residents: 290–680 ft
Lowest
99 ft 30 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the west side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside town boundaries
New Scotland spans about 1,721 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 | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 99 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Scotland | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Albany County, New York, United States
- Population
- 9,250 2024 est.
- Land area
- 57.5 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 161 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6287° N, 73.9135° 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 8
- 12009 12041 12054 12067 12158 12159 12186 12203
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Altamont440 ft
- New Scotland360 ft
- Voorheesville340 ft
- Village of Colonie310 ft
- Colonie300 ft
- Guilderland280 ft
- Roessleville270 ft
- Westmere260 ft
- Albany220 ft
- Bethlehem200 ft
- Rensselaer140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,456th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Albany County7th 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 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).
- 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, 98 ft at 42.6579° N, 73.8637° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.