North Hempstead, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
370 ft 110 m280 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m140 ft 40 m46 ft 14 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
North Hempstead sits at about 110 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
110 ft 35 m
most residents: 54–180 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Long Island Sound
Highest
370 ft 110 m
on Harbor Hill
Average
120 ft 35 m
all land inside town boundaries
North Hempstead spans about 370 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 | 110 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Harbor Hill | 370 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Long Island Sound | 0 ft0 m |
| Airport (JFK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 13 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 120 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.1 mi west to east through the middle of North Hempstead.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Nassau County, New York, United States
- Population
- 237,692 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.5 sq mi + 15.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,439 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7794° N, 73.6680° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- John F Kennedy International (JFK) 13 ft
- ZIP codes 16
- 11020 11021 11023 11024 11030 11040 11042 11050 11501 11507 11514 11568 11576 11577 11590 11596
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Roslyn Estates230 ft
- Roslyn190 ft
- North Hills190 ft
- Munsey Park170 ft
- Roslyn Heights140 ft
- Searingtown140 ft
- Albertson130 ft
- Manhasset Hills130 ft
- Williston Park120 ft
- Herricks110 ft
- North Hempstead110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,847th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Nassau County47th highest of 135
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Harbor Hill, Nassau County370 ft
- Mannetto Hills300 ft
- Thealls Hill120 ft
- Budds Hill71 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, −4 ft at 40.8340° N, 73.7079° 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.