Sand Lake, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,850 ft 565 m1,500 ft 455 m1,320 ft 405 m970 ft 295 m620 ft 190 m450 ft 135 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sand Lake sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 560–1,230 ft
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
on the west side
Highest
1,850 ft 565 m
on The Gipfel
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside town boundaries
Sand Lake spans about 1,400 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on The Gipfel | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 450 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sand Lake | 780 ft240 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States
- Population
- 8,353 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.0 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 238 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6373° N, 73.5407° 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 4
- 12018 12061 12153 12196
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Averill Park770 ft
- Sand Lake660 ft
- Nassau640 ft
- West Sand Lake590 ft
- Poestenkill580 ft
- Brunswick500 ft
- Nassau Lake430 ft
- Village of Nassau400 ft
- North Greenbush390 ft
- Wynantskill390 ft
- East Greenbush270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York952nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Rensselaer County7th highest of 27
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, 430 ft at 42.6546° N, 73.6054° 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.