Rensselaerville, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,170 ft 660 m1,800 ft 545 m1,610 ft 490 m1,240 ft 380 m870 ft 265 m690 ft 210 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
Rensselaerville sits at about 1,220 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 375 m
most residents: 850–1,890 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the south side
Highest
2,170 ft 660 m
on the west side
Average
1,420 ft 435 m
all land inside town boundaries
Rensselaerville spans about 1,480 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 | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rensselaerville | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Average of all land | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Nearest peak Huntersfield Mountain, 5.5 mi southwest of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 3,421 ft1,043 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Albany County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,862 2024 est.
- Land area
- 61.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5162° N, 74.1379° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Catskill Creek → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 7
- 12023 12083 12120 12122 12147 12460 12469
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Broome1,800 ft
- Berne1,360 ft
- Rensselaerville1,220 ft
- Knox1,210 ft
- Westerlo1,130 ft
- Preston-Potter Hollow1,030 ft
- Durham770 ft
- Town of Greenville730 ft
- Middleburgh700 ft
- Village of Middleburgh670 ft
- East Durham540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York436th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Albany County2nd highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- West Kill Mountain3,890 ft
- Bearpen Mountain3,590 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.