Niskayuna, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m430 ft 130 m390 ft 120 m310 ft 95 m220 ft 70 m180 ft 55 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
Niskayuna sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
most residents: 300–440 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the north side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Average
350 ft 105 m
all land inside town boundaries
Niskayuna spans about 330 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 180 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Niskayuna | 290 ft90 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.8 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 350 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Schenectady County, New York, United States
- Population
- 24,038 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.2 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,699 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7798° N, 73.8457° 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 2
- 12304 12309
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Niskayuna390 ft
- Schenectady340 ft
- Rotterdam340 ft
- Latham310 ft
- Village of Colonie310 ft
- Clifton Gardens310 ft
- Colonie300 ft
- Clifton Knolls-Mill Creek300 ft
- Guilderland280 ft
- Roessleville270 ft
- Westmere260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,407th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Schenectady County6th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Tenant Mountain2,767 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.